A myocardial infarction (commonly called a heart attack) occurs when an area of heart muscle is permenantly damaged after not receiving enough oxygen. This is usually because one of the blood vessels that supplies that area of the heart has become blocked, usually with a fatty plaque called atherosclerosis.
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