What does myocardial infarction mean?
Myocardial infarction is the medical term for heart attack and is the severe heart pain caused due to the collapse of some part of the heart muscles. Some times it leads to spot death. The underlying cause of myocardial infarction is the obstruction in the coronary artery, the artery that supplies blood to the heart muscle. This obstruction is due to the narrowing of the artery caused due to the deposition of fats on the walls of the artery (atheroma), leading to clotting of blood (thrombosis) thus blocking supply of blood to the heart muscles.
