More common in children than adults, a myocardial "concussion" caused by blunt trauma to the chest wall is called ______ (8,6).
A possible consequence of ventricular rupture, involves the pericardium filling with fluid - cardiac ______ (9).
A condition that causes death within 24 hours of the coronary event, usually within 2-6 hours (6,7,5).
Narrowing of an artery or other hollow passage in the body (8).
A patient with normal blood pressure at the clinic, who usually has elevated blood pressure, has this type of hypertension (6).
_______angina is most common in younger people and is caused by sudden vasospasm of a coronary artery (7).
A myocardial infarction that damages the papillary muscles can cause failure of the _________ and blood regurgitation/backflow (6,6).
_______angina is characterised by increasing pain due to sudden blockage of a coronary artery, often by a thrombus forming on top of an ulcerated atheroma (8).
Ventricular _____ or "splitting" is a serious and potentially life-threatening complication of a myocardial infarction (12).
______ heart disease; a non-ischaemic disease of the heart triggered by repeated streptococcal infections. Entirely preventable by antibiotic treatment (11).
_______ heart disease comprises malformations at birth that may cause pathological complications later in life (10).
Impaired neural innervation to either atria or ventricles can lead to a disruption in contractile function of the heart, termed _______? (10).
Ischaemic heart disease is caused by an _________ in oxygen supply and demand (9).
Most myocardial infarctions are due to ulceration and thrombosis of/on an atherosclerotic plaque in the _______ arteries (8).
_______angina is usually relieved by rest and is most commonly caused by gradual atherosclerotic occlusion of a coronary artery (6).