Acute myocardial infarction may sound like a very complex, unheard of condition to the layman, but it is actually the medical term for one of the most commonly known serious medical complications a person can suffer from; the heart attack. What can you tell us about it, as well as atherosclerosis?
Cardiac aneurysm
Hemopericardium
Atrial myxoma
Mural thrombus
Nutmeg liver
Defects in the cell membrane
Clumping of nuclear chromatin
Swelling of the mitochondria
Autophagy by lysosomes
Detachment of ribososmes
Ventricular rupture
Constrictive pericarditis
Increased ejection fraction
Severe mitral regurgitation
Ventricular dyskinesia
Viral Infection
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Tuberculosis
Acute myocardial infarction
Tumor invasion
24 – 72 hours
12 – 24 hours
< 12 hours
4 – 7 days
< 1 day
1 – 3 days
4 – 7 days
7 – 14 days
14 – 28 days
Atherosclerosis
Cystic medial necrosis
Fibrinoid necrosis
Medial degeneration
Focal coagulative necrosis of myocytes
Abundant cellular debris and neutrophil infiltration
Exuberant macrophage reaction with phagocytosis
Fibrosis and scar tissue
Fibroblast proliferation
SLE
Acute mycocardial infarction
Rheumatic Fever
Tuberculosis
Tumor invasion
Viral infection
Familial Hyperlipidemia
Infection
Acute Myocardial infarction
Dialted cardiomyopathy
Cheeseburgeremia
Lyme disease
Acute myocardial infarction
Myomatous tumor
Chagas
Rheumatic fever
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