Classification Identifies Four Stages of Heart Attack

Relying on more than 50 years of data on acute MI with reperfusion therapy, the society has identified the following four stages of progressively worsening myocardial tissue injury:

  1. Aborted MI (no or minimal myocardial necrosis).

  2. MI with significant cardiomyocyte necrosis but without microvascular injury.

  3. Cardiomyocyte necrosis and microvascular dysfunction leading to microvascular obstruction (that is, "no-reflow").

          Cardiomyocyte and microvascular necrosis leading to reperfusion hemorrhage.

 

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