what is paradoxical infarction?
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I think you have the term wrong.  \n\nParadox is something that seems to be contradictory, even though it may be true.\nInfarction is the death of tissue from being deprived of oxygen rich blood.\n\nMaybe you mean myocardial infarction, which is a heart attack.
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ISCHEMIA - Myocardium ( heart muscle) is alive but inefficient to do its work, because of narrowing of the artery that supply that particular area.\n\nINFARCTION: Death of the mycardium, due to lack of blood supply to that particular area. \n\nCertain type of Ischemia can be reversible, by proper perfusion therapy at proper TIME, but not the all ischemia, and infarction are reversible.
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Ischemic heart disease is caused by poor blood circulation to the heart. Normally, this is a result of atherosclerotic plaques which reduce the capacity of coronary arteries. Angina pectoris is a type of chest pain which is a symptom of ischemic heart disease. An infarction happens when an artery gets clogged because of plaque and a portion of the heart muscle dies. This is what is called a "heart attack".
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A heart attack is an acute condition caused by a thrombus (a blood clot) occluding (or blocking) one of the vessels supplying the heart muscle. This results in severe pain usually radiating down the left arm but may be referred to the neck or jaw. The Normal treatment would be additional oxygen, an anticoagulant and perhaps an enzyme that helps to dissolve the clot. Of course because of the severity of pain, morphine or demerol is usually used to both relax the patient and mitigate the pain. It is customary to use an intravenous solution drip to administer medications but also as a ready pathway if a further attach occurs. This is called a myocardial infarction.\nHeart failure is the inability of the heart to circulate blood over distal areas and causes a pooling of blood with concomitent swelling of extremities. The small valves within the veins have lost their integrity and are no longer able to assist the heart in the upward movement of the blood. Drugs such as digitalis are used to slow down and strengthen the heart beat but such patients are usually treated with bed rest and elevation of the legs, elastic wraps and diuretics to reduce fluids. This is preventable by moderate exercise but once condition is established it is an up-down course with the circulatory system slowly becoming dysfunctional.
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see if the link below helps.\n\nIt states that contradictions or precautions include, infection, cancer, heart problems, pacemaker, implants (metal, silicone, saline, acute and post acute injury, epiphyseal areas, pregnancy, thrombophlebitis, impaire sensation around the eyes
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He had an infarction in his leg, which caused him to lose a lot of his thigh muscle. As a result, he's experiencing extreme pain, for which he takes Vicodin to help cope with it.\n\nBy the way, and infarction is like a heart attack. Or as House said in season one: "It happens when the blood flow is obstructed. If it's in the heart, it's a heart attack; if it's in the lungs, it's a pulmonary embolism; if it's in the brain, it's a stroke. I had it in my leg."
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Possibly thrombosis this can be serious .. get it checked out by a doctor regardless of cost!
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A paradox is an apparently true statement or group of statements that seems to involve an unexpected outcome. The stated 'factually true' outcome defies intuition, just because intuition is unable to form correct expectation as it ingores pertinent causal factors. Philosophical and mathematical paradoxes may seem to involve contradiction.
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The worst complication of this type of condition is intestinal obstruction, either of the small or large intestine (bowel). Obstruction leads to local ischemia of the bowel. This inturn leads to infartion witch is fllowed by necrosis of the bowel wall. The contents of of the bowel (feces and bacteria) then spill into the peritoneal cavity, a sterile envirment, contaminating it leading to septic shock. At this point, the patient will suffer the complications of septic shock (disseminated intravascular coagulation, acute respritory distress, ect..). Most will unfortunatly die.
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Cancer of the heart is called angiosarcoma. Very rare.
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Acute myocardial infarction (AMI or MI), commonly known as a heart attack, is a serious, sudden heart condition usually characterized by varying degrees of chest pain or discomfort, weakness, sweating, nausea, vomiting, and arrhythmias, sometimes causing loss of consciousness. It occurs when the blood supply to a part of the heart is interrupted, causing death and scarring of the local heart tissue. Since the area affected may be large or small, the severity of heart attacks vary, but they are often a life-threatening medical emergency which demand both immediate attention and activation of the emergency medical services.\n\nDiagnosis is by the combination of medical history, ECG findings and blood tests for cardiac enzymes. The most important treatment in myocardial infarction is restoring the blood flow to the heart, by thrombolysis (enzymatically dissolving the clot in the artery) and/or angioplasty (using a balloon to push the artery open). Close monitoring on a coronary care unit is mandatory to observe for various complications. There is emphasis on secondary prevention, the elimination of risk factors that could lead to further heart attacks.\n\nThe medical term myocardial infarction derives from myocardium (the heart muscle) and infarction (tissue death), in this case caused by an obstruction of blood flow. The phrase "heart attack" is occasionally used to refer to heart problems other than a myocardial infarction, such as unstable angina pectoris.\nBefore the development of the electrocardiogram, it was impossible to objectively diagnose myocardial infarction. The term angina pectoris, to describe chest pain, had been coined by William Heberden in 1772 but little was known about the disease mechanism.\n\nAs a disease entity, myocardial infarction was described in full by James Herrick in an 1912 article in JAMA. (Herrick, 1912) He is credited as the originator of the "thrombogenic theory", i.e. the theory that myocardial infarction is due to thrombosis in the coronary artery. Subsequently, atherosclerosis and plaque rupture were discovered as underlying mechanisms.\n\nA major breakthrough in the identification of risk factors was the 1956 British doctors study, which showed an increased risk of myocardial infarction in heavy smokers.\n\nAcute myocardial infarction is usually characterized by varying degrees of chest pain, discomfort, sweating, weakness, nausea, vomiting, and arrhythmias, sometimes causing loss of consciousness. Chest pain is the most common symptom of acute myocardial infarction and is often described as a tightness, pressure, or squeezing sensation. Pain may radiate to the jaw, neck, arms, back, and epigastrium, most often to the left arm or neck. Chest pain is more likely caused by myocardial infarction when it lasts for more than 30 minutes. The patient may complain of shortness of breath (dyspnea) especially if the decrease in myocardial contractility due to the infarct is sufficient to cause left ventricular failure with pulmonary congestion or even pulmonary edema.\n\nAccording to some authorities, the symptomatology in women may be somewhat different from that in men. Fatigue, sleep disturbances, and dyspnea have been reported as frequently occurring prodromal symptoms which may manifest as long as one month before the actual clinically manifested ischemic event. The most common acute symptoms of the MI may include dyspnea, weakness, and fatigue. Thus in women, chest pain may be less predictive of coronary ischemia than in men (PMID 14597589).\n\nApproximately one quarter of all myocardial infarctions are silent, without chest pain or other symptoms. This happens more often in elderly patients and patients with diabetes mellitus. They may complain though of atypical symptoms like fatigue, syncope, or weakness. Approximately half of all MI patients have experienced warning symptoms like angina pectoris prior to the infarct.\n\nWHO Criteria - Must have 2 out of 3:\n\nClinical
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"A seemingly contradictory statement that may nonetheless be true; an assertion that is essentially self-contradictory, though based on a valid deduction from acceptable premises."\n\nBut what all that confusing nonsense means is that when something is a paradox, you wonder how it can be possible when it seems that it should be impossible. Or saying something that is true, and yet seems false. \n\nFor example, "The ice was so cold that it burned." Touching a cold surface should, scientifically, make you feel cold, as you are losing warmth by touching it. However, extremely cold objects/substances are described as "burning." \n\nOr, try a complicated scenario as a paradox: you are standing in the exact center of a free-floating sheet of ice in the middle of a pond during a snow storm. If you move, the platform will tip, and you will fall and freeze to death in the icy water. However, if you don't move, your body will freeze nonetheless. Often referred to as a "catch-22."\n\nAnother statement that is a paradox: suppose you were to say, I am from the island of Nor. Everyone on Nor is a liar.  Therefore, if you are telling the truth, you are lying. If you are lying, then you are telling the truth.\n\nOr a classic: This statement is false. Is it true, or is it false? \n\nHope this helps.
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I've never heard of this, so first of all my thoughts are with your family.  I knew strokes, heart attacks and those types of things didn't only happen to "older" people anymore, but that they were also happening to people as young as their 20's.  I had absolutely no idea, I am going to try to look this up tho, as I have two young children.  Were there any symptoms, something long coming that didn't get noticed because it was also considered a normal thing?  I hope he stays strong and has a great turn around back to good health.
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A stroke, or CVA [cerebral vascular accident], is a medical term for an event where the brain does not get enough blood flow (whether is due to a leak or a blockage).  The nervous tissue in the brain requires a constant supply of blood (because it carries oxygen).  If this supply is insufficient, the nervous tissue will die, and therefore parts of the brain tissue dies.  The brain is the center of the nervous system.
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I have had the same thing and was not given an explanation. The onset of stroke is accompanied by slurred speech and loss of balance.
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During a heart attack, there is a blockage in a blood vessel in your heart.  Part of you heart doesn't get blood and oxygen, so it dies.  In a stroke, there is a blockage in a blood vessel in your brain.  Part of your brain can't get blood and oxygen, so it dies.  In serious cases, the blood vessel can actually burst open.  In either case, you've got serious problems.
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Your vocab is a LITTLE confusing - there is no such thing as "pulmonary ventricular fibrillation" - just 'ventricular fibrillation'. This is the most serious cardiac arrythmia, and is rapidly fatal unless defibrillated (shocking the chest).\nThe vast majority of coronary angioplasty and stEnting (drug-eluting stents, or bare-metal stents) cases are performed without any occurrence of arrythmias. Especially if the initial blockage was only 80%, ie it was likely performed as an elective procedure, not as an emergency after an acute MI (heart attack).\n\nSo, in short, this is NOT normal.