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Ischaemic or ischemic heart disease , or myocardial ischemia, is a disease characterized by reduced blood supply to the heart muscle, usually due to coronary artery disease . Its risk increases with age, smoking, hypercholesterolemia , diabetes, hypertension and is more common in men and those who have close relatives with ischaemic heart disease. Symptoms of stable ischaemic heart disease include angina and decreased exercise tolerance. Unstable IHD presents itself...


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What is the main cuase of ischemia and how is it linked to myocardial infarction,...
Also with atheroma. Im cofnused with the following terms and how they relate to cuasing myocardial...

The buildup of atheroma or fatty plaque in the wall of the coronary artery narrows the lumen of the artery resulting in ischemia or inadequate blood flow to the heart....

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difference between myocardial ischemia and myocardial infarction?
i know that one is necrosis of the heart tissue but how do you distinguish...

Ischemia is a decrease in blood flow to the heart muscle, infarction is damage to the heart that involves the death of a certain amount of heart muscle. The doctor...

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