Disease Heart Attack

Disease Heart Attack

A heart attack is an emergency medical condition that is to be handled, if too late then it is very likely the patient immediately met his end (death). In developed countries, especially in America, heart disease is the number one cause of death in which a heart attack experienced by more than 1.5 million people there. Similarly in Indonesia, the Ministry of Health and Heart Disease Foundation suggests that this is now in Indonesia, heart disease ranks first as the cause of death.

Diseases of heart attack (Heart Attack), which in medical language referred to as myocardial infarction (MI), is the damage and even death of heart muscle (myocardium) caused an abrupt interruption of blood supply (as the bearer of Oxygen) is stricken area as a result of several factors. For example: Occurs when a coronary artery blockage was for some time, either due to spasm (occur tightening coronary arteries), due to thrombus (blood clot) or due to the narrowing and blockage by the buildup of fatty substances (cholesterol, triglycerides) that the longer more and more and accumulate beneath the deepest layer (endothelium) of the artery wall.

Heart attacks are caused by the spasm that causes including coronary artery blockade will disappear completely, either pain or other complaints when a coronary artery is relaxed and functioning as normal. These conditions are called crescendo angina or coronary insufficiency. If this occurred in the range 20 to 40 minutes, then it can cause death of heart muscle (infarct) as a result it lacks oxygen because the blood supply stops.