What is a heart attack?

Answer 1

A myocardial infarction, commonly referred to as a heart attack, occurs when the blood supply to the heart is cut off. This is usually the result of plaques in the arteries, that form blood clots if they rupture.

Answer 2

A heart attack usually involves a clot on one of the blood vessels that supplies the heart. The clot often occurs on the coronary arteries which carries blood to the heart muscle. A heart attack can result in sudden death.

Answer 3

damage to an area of heart muscle that is deprived of oxygen, usually due to blockage of a diseased coronary artery, typically accompanied by chest pain radiating down one or both arms, the severity of the attack varying with the extent and location of the damage; myocardial infarction.

Answer 4

A 'Heart Attack' is a generic term for a number of Cardio-Vascular conditions;

* Myocardial infarction or MI * Acute myocardial infarction or AMI * Acute coronary syndrome * Coronary thrombosis * Coronary occlusion

Answer 5

The definition for a heart attack, or myocardial infarction, is as follows: an acute episode of Heart disease marked by the death or damage of heart muscle due to insufficient blood supply to the heart muscle usually as a result of a coronary thrombosis or a coronary occlusion and that is characterized especially by chest pain. (medlineplus.org)

Answer 6

A heart attack is when something (usually cholesterol) builds up in the heart, or areas around it, and eventually blocks or slows down the blood flow to the heart. It results in heart cells dieing and can be very dangerous, especially if it lasts long enough to damage your heart enough beyond repair.

Answer 7

"Heart attack" is the vernacular for what is medically termed "myocardial infarction", which means that some portion of cardiac muscle has "died" or become necrotic (nonfunctional). This weakens the heart's ability to pump blood, either mildly (in the case of a mild inferior wall infarction) up to severely, in the case of a major anterolateral wall infarction.

Answer 8

a heart attack is a failure to the heart. look it up in dictionary.com and type the word heart attack in the bar for more information

Answer 9

the death of heart muscle forms lack of oxygen and food supply due to blocked the coronary arteries