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Myocardial Ischemia

"Myocardial Ischemia" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A disorder of cardiac function caused by insufficient blood flow to the muscle tissue of the heart. The decreased blood flow may be due to narrowing of the coronary arteries (CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE), to obstruction by a thrombus (CORONARY THROMBOSIS), or less commonly, to diffuse narrowing of arterioles and other small vessels within the heart. Severe interruption of the blood supply to the myocardial tissue may result in necrosis of cardiac muscle (MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION).


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Myocardial Ischemia" by people in this website by year, and whether "Myocardial Ischemia" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 114 publications over 30 distinct years, with a maximum of 14 publications in 2002
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