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Cardiovascular disease is a common term given to various diseases related to blood vessels around the heart or in your own heart. In general, people often use the terms of cardiovascular disease and heart disease as synonyms, but both refer to different things.

Above all, all cardiovascular diseases in reality to clot or blockage of the arteries. Due to insufficient oxygen supply to the heart that fails to pump properly leading to strokes, heart failure or heart attack. These conditions can be fatal leading to death.

Medical science has made phenomenal progress in the field of cardiology, yet is still considered one of the most dangerous diseases. Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death not only in America but also in most advanced countries. Despite technological improvements, not much could be achieved in reducing the rate of deaths caused by heart failure. Read the rest of this entry »

Infarction of the lower region of the myocardium: dark red, the necrotic area of the wall of the heart muscle. Myocardial infarction (MI is an abbreviation) is a necrosis (cell death) of a portion of heart muscle. In common parlance, we call most often a heart attack. It occurs when one or more coronary arteries become blocked, cells in the myocardium (the muscle forming the heart) irrigated by this (these) artery (s) are then more oxygen, causing their suffering (pain) and may lead to their death (myocardial scar that usually persist). The area “infarcted” does incur more correctly.