Computed tomogram showing spleen infarcts (white arrows).
Heart attack of the anterior wall of the left ventricle of the heart.
Infarction ( lat. Infarcire “fill, stuff”) - necrosis ( necrosis ) of the body due to acute lack of blood supply [1] . Causes of a heart attack: thrombosis , embolism , prolonged spasm of the arteries and functional overstrain of the organ in hypoxia with insufficiency of collateral circulation [2] .
The term is applicable to all metabolite-active organs, but the most commonly used are:
- Myocardial infarction
- Cerebral infarction ( ischemic stroke )
- Limb muscle infarction
- Kidney infarction
- Spleen infarction
See also
Play media file
A video describing the mechanism of heart attacks. English with Russian subtitles.
- Ischemia
- Stroke
Notes
- ↑ Heart attack // Kazakhstan. National Encyclopedia . - Almaty: Kazakh encyclopedias , 2005. - T. II. - ISBN 9965-9746-3-2 .
- ↑ Heart attack / E. A. Kogan // Great Russian Encyclopedia : [in 35 vol.] / Ch. ed. Yu.S. Osipov . - M .: Great Russian Encyclopedia, 2004—2017.
Literature
- Heart attack - an article from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia .