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Microinfarction - signs.
A microinfarction (or small focal infarction) is damage to an area of the heart muscle that is smaller in size than in a normal myocardial infarction. The size of the lesion can be so small that it is often asymptomatic. Sometimes a person learns about the transferred microinfarction by chance when examining the heart muscle.
The prerequisites for the occurrence of a microinfarction are multiple:
- Atherosclerosis,
- Metabolic disorders
- Tendency to thrombosis,
- Physically hard work,
- Psychological overload,
- Arterial hypertension.
Signs of a microinfarction (can be independent or combined):
- Severe weakness in the body,
- General malaise, cold sweat,
- Numbness in the hands,
- Dizziness,
- Pain in the region of the heart, varying in intensity (from insignificant, weak to severe, similar to a stab wound),
- The pain can be localized behind the sternum, given to the lower jaw, neck, shoulder, arm, under the shoulder blade and even in the stomach,
- The pain lasts more than 20 minutes.
What happens to the heart muscle during a microinfarction?
A microinfarction occurs on an intact area of myocardial tissue, while in this area the blood supply to the muscle stops due to a blockage of the vessel, in the absence of blood supply, a small area of the heart tissue dies - the muscle is damaged. Microinfarctions can be not only single, but also multiple, recurring in those parts of the myocardium that are still intact.
An electrocardiogram, an echocardiogram, an ultrasound scan, plus the subjective feelings of the patient himself, can reveal a microinfarction. It is for this reason that it is necessary to listen to even insignificant signals from the body in order to prevent a dangerous condition of the heart muscle in time.
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