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Heart Attack (Myocardial Infarction)
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A heart attack is caused by a blood clot obstructing a coronary artery that supplies blood to the heart muscle, causing death of muscle.

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Ischaemic Heart Disease
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Ischaemic heart disease (IHD) can be considered virtually synonymous with coronary artery disease. Atheromatous disease outweighs all other causes, but coronary arteritis and embolism can cause ischaemia

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Management of Acute Infarction
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The aims of management are pain relief, treatment of arrhythmic and mechanical complications, and infarct limitation. Management is subsequently directed to defining the relatively small proportion of patients at a greater than normal risk in the postinfa

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Management of Chronic Stable Angina
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All patients should be advised to stop smoking, achieve their ideal weight and have raised blood pressure controlled. Lipid measurments should be made in patients below 50 years of age; those with severe abnormalities should be given an appropriate diet u

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Myocardial Infarction
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Thousands of people suffer a myocardial infarction each year. Helf die from the infarction, and of these, half do so before they reach hospital. Most of this group suffer an arrhythmia and death ocurs instantaneously or within 1 hour of the first symptom.

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Non-invasive Tests Used to Determine Heart Disease Risk
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Stress testing is done very frequently as a way of trying to determine the risk of heart disease. What is really known about stress testing as a predictive test and when should it be used? Should you have a routine treadmill test, a stress thallium, or a

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