Myocardial infarction, commonly known as a heart attack, is one of the most serious heart problems people can face. It happens when blood flow to a part of the heart muscle is suddenly blocked.

Singer Ozzy Osbourne reportedly died of a heart attack when he passed away on July 22 at the age of 76. Cardiac arrest, ...

A heart attack also is called a myocardial infarction or coronary thrombosis. Each coronary artery supplies blood to a specific part of the heart's muscular wall, so a blocked artery causes pain ...

Signs of an oncoming acute myocardial infarction can occur much in advance (sometimes a month or even earlier than the actual heart attack). Of the 515 women studied, ...

(CBS) Myocardial infarction, or heart attack, can happen fast and kill quickly. But scientists at the University of Connecticut Health Center say they have found a protein fragment in the blood ...

HEART attack risk could be lowered by making some diet or lifestyle changes. You’re most likely to have a deadly myocardial infarction on a specific day of the calendar year, and the date isn ...

“Women are misrepresented in many clinical studies on myocardial infarction (heart attack) even though they often have worse outcomes,” said study author Pranas Serpytis.

This is a heart attack, which can also be referred to by its medical names, myocardial infarction, acute coronary syndrome or coronary thrombosis. The NHS recently relaunched a tool that predicts ...

Since the damage from myocardial infarction is irreversible, it is essential to properly diagnose and resuscitate the heart as soon as possible. The sooner treatment takes place less than six ...