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Myocardial infarction  
Necrosis of the myocardium caused by an obstruction of the blood supply to the heart and often associated with chest pain, shortness of breath, palpitations, and anxiety as well as characteristic EKG findings and elevation of serum markers including creatine kinase-MB fraction and troponin.

Synonyms
Exact Synonyms: Heart attack ;   MI
Narrow Synonyms: acute myocardial infarction ;   post-operative myocardial infarction
Xrefs: EFO:0000612 ;   EFO:0008583 ;   EFO:0009953 ;   SNOMEDCT_US:22298006 ;   UMLS:C0027051
Definition Sources: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0736-9199

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