2007-08-24 18:08:32 · 6 answers · asked by kristoff 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Heart Diseases
Acute MI is the process by which Myocardial infraction take, the former is a verb and the later is noun.
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2007-08-25 08:24:12 · answer #1 · answered by Dr.Qutub 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A myocardial infarction (MI) is a heart attack. Which can occur for a number of different reasons. (i.e.: burst plaque in a coronary artery, spasm from drug use, thrombus (from a DVT) that has crossed a PFO (or hole in the heart)... etc.) Acute means sudden. People who have an Acute MI go directly to the Cardiac Catheterization lab from the ER. Here, they will try to open the blockage using a balloon & stent. Unfortunately, sometimes folks having an Acute MI will go into Ventricular Fibrillation, and if not defibrillated (shocked) immediately, may not survive. There are other causes as well as complications, but those are the main ones.
2016-05-17 08:59:58 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-05-17 10:21:34 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Acute means that something occured suddenly; chronic means something that has occured over a period of time. For example, if I suddenly developed a fever, it would be considered acute. But if I suffered from diabetes, it would be considered chronic. Personally, I have chronic headaches; I have had them everyday for the last 16 years. It's interesting though that you mention an acute MI because if you think about it, there are no chronic MI's; I never thought about that before.
2007-08-24 18:20:16 · answer #4 · answered by jill48 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Acute means it all seems to happen at once without the buildup of symptoms that many people have, even spread over a matter of days.
2007-08-24 18:13:28 · answer #5 · answered by Tom 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is the kind of myocardial infarction that kills you, as opposed to Mild MIs
2007-08-24 18:16:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋