myocardial infarct


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myocardial infarct

[¦mī·ə¦kärd·ē·əl ′in‚färkt]
(medicine)
An infarct in heart muscle.
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In this scenario, the doctor's attorney will argue that the cause of death, a myocardial infarct, was preexisting atherosclerotic heart disease, rather than hyperkalemia.
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The saponin of red ginseng protects the cardiac myocytes against ischemic injury in vitro and in vivo
I can see a day in the near future when intravenous itMSC administration becomes part of the standard of care following an acute myocardial infarct.
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17) Similar results are obtained studying patients with coronary disease or previous myocardial infarcts in whom proteinuria conferred a greater risk of mortality than reduced GFR, although both adversely impacted outcomes.
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Serum levels of cardiac troponin I and troponin T in estimating myocardial infarct size soon after reperfusion.
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The hospital issued a statement saying that Mahathir suffered a ''mild myocardial infarct.
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The company also said it has now completed a number of large animal studies focused on the use of allogeneic stem cells, or cells from an unrelated donor, for repair of damaged heart muscle and improvement of heart function after a myocardial infarct, or heart attack.
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5% of patients with acute myocardial infarct experience a stroke within 2 to 4 weeks of the infarction.
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7] The intake of these steroids has been associated with vascular complications, cardiomyopathy, coronary atherosclerosis, and cardiac hypertrophy,[5] and in several clinical reports, intake was associated with an acute myocardial infarct.
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At age 64 an intracardiac defibrillator was inserted, at age 66 atrial fibrillation appeared, and at age 67 a second myocardial infarct occurred.
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Arrhythmia scores and myocardial infarct size were reduced significantly with ischemic preconditioning or carbachol-induced preconditioning and were not modified by trimetazidine.
Effects of chronic trimetazidine treatment on myocardial preconditioning in anesthetized rats
Areas at risk and myocardial infarct size determination
Cardioprotective effect of polydatin against ischemia/reperfusion injury: Roles of protein kinase C and mito [K.sub.ATP] activation

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