Q. What is myocardial infarction?

The Myocardial infarction is the condition in which an area of this tissue or the entire heart muscle dies by hypoxia due to lack of blood irrigation. The Myocardial infarction is a severe disease since on the dependence of its extension the heart can fail that is it can no longer pump blood to the lungs or to the body or it can even stop beating (causing death).

The major cause of myocardial infarction is coronary obstruction, blocking of the arteries that carry arterial blood to the heart muscle and the other events like hemodynamic shock (circulation stoppage due to large hemorrhages, for example) can also cause myocardial infarction.