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b. Cardiogenic shock
It is caused by real left ventricular dysfunction after a massive infarction, usually
about a liftie of 40% of the left ventricle. An irreversibly progressive evolutionary
hemodynamic vicious circle arises:
Decreased peripheral perfusion
Decrease in coronary perfusion
Increased lung congestion
e. Heart rupture
Rupture of the free ventricular wall of the heart may occur early in the course of
infarction during the necrotic tissue removal phase prior to scarring. The thin necrotic
walls are ruptured causing massive bleeding into the relatively inelastic pericardium sacs
that can not develop. A pericardial sac filled with blood pressing the heart will give rise to
a heart tanponade. This heart's tanponade will reduce the venous flow and cardiac output.
f. Thromboembolism
Endothelial necrosis of the ventricles will make the endothelial surface become coarse that
predisposes to thrombus formation. Fractions of intracardiac mural thrombus may be
released and systemic embolization occurs. The second area that has the potential to form
a thrombus is the venous system. Vein embolization will cause embolism in the lungs.
g. Pericarditis
A transmural infarction can make the epicardium layer directly contact with the
pericardium to become large, stimulating the pericardium surface and causing an
inflammatory reaction, occasionally pericardial effusion or fluid accumulation between the
two layers.
h. Dressler Syndrome
Post myocardial infarction syndrome is a benign inflammatory response accompanied by
pain in the pleuropericardial. It is thought that this syndrome is a hypersensitivity reaction
to a necrotic myocardium.
i. Arrhythmias
Arrhythmias arise due to electrophysiological changes in myocardial cells. This
electrophysiological change manifests as a change in the form of an action potential ie a
recording of a graph of electrical activity of a cell