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THE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION - HEART ATTACK

- Definition
- A few explanations
- The Symptoms
- How to make the diagnosis?
- Gravity diagnosis and prognosis
- The Causes
- Evolution and complications
- Medical treatment
- The Coronarography
- Treatment by angioplasty or "Stent"
- The surgical treatment
- Monitoring
- Conclusion

CONCLUSION

The management in case of myocardial infarction (heart attack), i.e. the immediate, precocious or late management, is currently very codified. In particular, the management of the precocious complications is primordial and justifies an attentive surveillance in cardiology intensive care units.

The thrombolytic treatments permit a precocious reperfusion of the heart muscle, as well as the implementation of an angioplasty; these treatments have transformed the prognosis of the myocardial infarction. Subsequently, the mortality of the acute phase of the myocardial infarction has passed from 20 to 10% within 20 years.

Besides, the surgical treatment keeps on progressing.

File last modified on july 24, 2006

The coronarography, literally meaning the “x-ray of the coronary arteries”, is an exam requiring to puncture an artery of a member in order to introduce a hose through which a product impervious to X-rays will be injected, directly into the coronary arteries. More

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