A coronary occlusion is the partial or complete obstruction of blood flow in a
coronary artery. This condition may cause a
heart attack.
In some patients coronary occlusion causes only mild pain, tightness or vague discomfort which may be ignored; however, the
myocardium
Cardiac muscle (also called heart muscle, myocardium, cardiomyocytes and cardiac myocytes) is one of three types of vertebrate muscle tissues, with the other two being skeletal muscle and smooth muscle. It is an involuntary, striated muscle that ...
, the muscle tissue of the heart, may be damaged.
In history
According to
Robert K. Massie's ''
Nicholas and Alexandra: The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty'',
Tsar Nicholas II may have suffered a coronary occlusion right before he was toppled from his throne during the Russian Revolution in 1917.
[ Massie, Robert K. (2012), '' Nicholas and Alexandra: The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty''. New York, The Modern Library, p. 433. . Accessed 2016-11-19. Originally published in 1967 by Artheneum (United States) as ''Nicholas and Alexandra: An Intimate Account of the Last of the Romanovs and the Fall of Imperial Russia''. .]
See also
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Arterial embolism
Arterial embolism is a sudden interruption of blood flow to an organ or body part due to an embolus adhering to the wall of an artery blocking the flow of blood, the major type of embolus being a blood clot (thromboembolism). Sometimes, pulmona ...
References
Heart diseases
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