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2. What Is Heart Disease? Everything You Need to Know - AOL

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   A heart attack, or myocardial infarction, occurs when blood flow to the heart is suddenly blocked. This medical emergency is often the result of coronary artery disease.

3. Clogged Arteries Can Play a Significant Role in Severe Heart ...

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   Severe chest pains are a clear sign of a heart attack, but even mild pain and pressure can be a serious warning sign. ... “Because of the type of nerve endings within the heart, blocked arteries ...

4. How Long Does a Heart Attack Last? Cardiologists Explain

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   "During a heart attack, or myocardial infarction, blood flow to part of the heart muscle is blocked, usually due to a clot in a coronary artery," says Dr. Joseph Daibes, DO, a cardiologist at ...

5. Reperfusion therapy - Wikipedia

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   Reperfusion therapy is a medical treatment to restore blood flow, either through or around, blocked arteries, typically after a heart attack (myocardial infarction (MI)). Reperfusion therapy includes drugs and surgery. The drugs are thrombolytics and fibrinolytics used in a process called thrombolysis.

6. Coronary occlusion - Wikipedia

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   Symptoms include chest pain or angina, shortness of breath, and fatigue. [6]A completely blocked coronary artery will cause a heart attack. [6] Common heart attack symptoms include chest pain or angina, pain or discomfort that spreads to the shoulder, arm, back, neck jaw, teeth or the upper belly, cold sweats, fatigue, heartburn, nausea, shortness of breath, or lightheadedness.

7. Coronary artery disease - Wikipedia

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   Coronary artery disease (CAD), also called coronary heart disease (CHD), or ischemic heart disease (IHD), [13] is a type of heart disease involving the reduction of blood flow to the cardiac muscle due to a build-up of atheromatous plaque in the arteries of the heart. [5] [6] [14] It is the most common of the cardiovascular diseases. [15]