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Myocardial Ischemia

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Lack of oxygen and reduced blood flow to the myocardium resulting in an imbalance between myocardial oxygen supply and demand

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Myocardial Infarction

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Necrosis (death) of heart muscle caused by an imbalance between oxygen supply and demand

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Angina Pectoris

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“Chest pain”; pain or discomfort in the chest or adjacent areas which is due to myocardial ischemia

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Silent Ischemia

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Painless episodes of myocardial ischemia (75% of all ischemia)

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Silent Infarction

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Infarction occurring without chest pain or other common symptoms of ischemia; about 20% of all first infarcts

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Acute Coronary Syndrome

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Unstable angina or acute myocardial infarction

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Myocardial Oxygen Demand

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  1. Heart Rate
  2. Wall Tension
  3. Contactility
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Wall Tension

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  • Related to ventricular volume and wall pressure

- Preload v.s. Afterload

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Myocardial Oxygen Supply

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  1. Coronary Blood Flow
  2. Collaterals
  3. Autoregulation
  4. Other factors that regulate coronary blood flow
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Coronary Blood Flor

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  • Increased oxygen demand must be met by an increase in coronary blood flow
  • Coronary blood flow can normally increase 5x resting value
  • Coronary blood flow occurs primarily during diastole
  • May be altered by fixed obstruction or vasospasm
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Collaterals

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  • Provide blood flow when major vessels are obstructed
  • Development enhanced by gradual coronary occlusion, exercise, severe anemia
  • May prevent a myocardial infarction in the presence of total occlusion
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Autoregulation

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-As larger coronary arteries become occluded or stenotic, smaller vessels dilate to maintain coronary blood flow

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Other Factors

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  • Neural (symp v.s. parasymp.)
  • Endothelium - EDRF, endothelin, prostaglandins, others
  • Metabolic - oxygen, carbon dioxide, adenosine
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Oxygen Extraction

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  • At rest, 65-75% of oxygen passing through myocardium is extracted
  • With increased oxygen demand, oxygen extraction can approach 80%
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Blood Oxygen Content

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  • Hemoglobin/hematocrit

- Arterial blood gases

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Types of Ischemic Heart Disease

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  1. Chronic Stable Angina
  2. Unstable Angina
  3. Vasospastic Angina (Prinzmetal’s Variant)
  4. Myocardial Infarction (MI)
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Chronic Stable Angina

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  • Associated with a certain level of physical activity or emotional stress
  • Relieved by rest or nitroglycerin
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Unstable Angina

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  • Angina of new onset, usually within one month and brought on by minial exertion
  • Development of crescendo (more severe) pain superimposed on preexisting exertion-related angina
  • Any change in angina frequency, intensity, or duration
  • Pain at rest
  • No elevated cardiac enzymes or ST-segment elevation
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Vasospastic Angina

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  • Occurs in patients with or without coronary heart disease and is due to a spasm of a coronary artery that decreases myocardial blood flow
  • More likely to experience pain at rest and in the early morning hours
  • Pain not usually brought on by exertion or emotional stress or relieved by rest
  • Occurs more often in smokers, young patients, with illicit drug use, and with alcohol withdrawal
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Myocardial Infarction

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  • Most common due to artherosclerotic thrombosis
  • Coronary spasm and coronary embolus may also cause infarction
  • ST-segment and Non-ST segment elevation MI
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STEMI

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  • ST-segment elevation MI
  • MI characterized by ST-segment elevation on the ECG in at least 2 contiguous leads of >= 2 mm in men or >= 1.5 mm in women in leads V2-V3 and/or ?= 1 mm in other contiguous chest leads or the limb leads
  • More extensive infarct
  • Higher hospital mortality rate
  • Elevated cardiac enzymes
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NSTEMI

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  • Non-ST-segment elevation MI
  • Damage to myocardium is not as extensive
  • Increased likelihood of developing post-infarction angina and early reinfarction
  • Elevated cardiac enzymes
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Type I MI

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  • Spontaneous MI
  • Due to atherosclerotic plaque rupture and thrombus formation
  • Vast majority of MI
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Type II MI

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  • Due to ischemic imbalance
  • NOT due to plaque rupture, but end result is in inadequate oxygenation of myocardial tissue
  • EX: coronary vasospasm, hypotension, anemia, etc.
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Type 3 MI
- Fatal MI in the setting of no cardiac biomarkers - REsults in death and suspected based on symptoms and ECG findings - No cardiac biomarkers obtained
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Type 4a MI
- Due to PCI - Confirmed by troponin elevations and one or more of the following: 1. Symptoms of ischemia 2. ECG changes 3. Angiographic evidence of coronary artery obstruction 4. Imaging evidence of myocardial damage
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Type 4b MI
- Due to stent thrombosis | - Confirmed by an increase in cardiac biomarkers
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Type 5 MI
- Due to CABG - Confirmed by the increase in cardiac biomarkers and one or more of the following: 1. New Q waves or left bundle branch block on ECG 2. Angiographic evidence of new coronary artery obstruction 3. Imaging evidence of myocardial damage
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Patho of Atherosclerosis
1. Phase 1: small plaque that is present in most people < 30 y.o., usually progresses slowly 2. Phase 2: Plaque, not necessarily stenotic, with high lipid content and is prone to rupture 3. Phase 3: Plaque rupture with mural thombosis formation, leads to an increase in artery stenosis and possibly angina 4. Phase 4: Plaque rupture leading to an acute coronary occlusion, leads to unstable angina, AMI, or ischemic sudden death 5. Phase 5: Severely stenotic or occlusion plaques organized by connective tissue, may become complicated by a thrombus and/or myoproliferative response leading to an acute silent occlusive process
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Plaque Rupture
- Most complications of atherosclerosis are due to plaque rupture - Rupture tends to occur at junctions, branches, or bends in the vessel
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Clot Formation
- Platelet deposition: first step in hemostasis and thrombus formation, increases with an increase in shear force - Platelet activation causes conformational change in GP IIb/IIIa receptor, allowing it to bind to fibrinogen - Fibrinogen cross-links develop and form bridges to otehr platelets, facilitating aggregation and ultimately platelet plug - Platelets generate thrombin and convert fibrinogen to fibrin which converts white thrombus to a stable red-thrombus - Plaque composition may be MOST important determinant for plaque rupture/fissure
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Glycoproteins
- Different GP adhere to various adhesive proteins found in subendothelial matrix which are exposed by vessel damage - GP Ib: binds von Willebrand factor - GP Ia/IIA: binds collagen - GP Ic/IIa: binds fibronectin - GP IIb/IIa: plays a secondary role in platelet adhesion
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History/Risk Factor Assessment
- Part of Diagnosis of IHD - No physical findings are specific for angina - Characteristics of pain - Laboratory assessment is not helpful except for cardiac enzymes - Patient's cardiac risk factors - Pain with unstable angina typically lasts 10-20 minutes - Pain with non-ST-elevation MI typically lasts up to an hour - Pain with an ST-elevation MI typically lasts > 1 hour
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ECG
- Used in diagnosis of IHD - Resting ECG is normal in about 30-50% of patients with angina - ST-T wave changes - Q waves with infarction - Use of ambulatory monitoring to detect silent ischemia
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Exercise Tolerance Testing (ETT)
- Used in diagnosis of IHD - Useful for assessing the severity and prognosis of CAD - Positive test indicated by angina, ECG changes, or dysrhythmias - Abnormal BP or HR response may signal CAD
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Radionuclide Imaging
- Used in diagnosis of IHD - Patient is stressed with either exercise or pharmacologically and then myocardial imaging performed using either sestamibi or thallium - Defect in myocardial uptake of sestamibi or thallium indicates ischemia or infarction - More expensive than ETT
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Radionuclide Imaging Useful for patients....
- Unable to exercise completely - Asymptomatic with abnormal results on ETT - Men with typical angina who have "negative" results on ETT - Women with typical angina who have equivocal ETT results - Patients with known CAD to determine myocardial viability
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Coronary Angiography
- Used in diagnosis of IHD and definitive diagnosis of CAD - Allows determination of location and extent of atherosclerosis - Used when bypass surgery or angioplasty are being contemplated for therapy - Does not give functional information
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Cardiac Enzymes
- Used in diagnosis of IHD - Creatine kinase (CK or CPK) - Isoenzymes: MM (muscle), BB (brain), MB (myocardium) - Troponins I and T
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