Following a heart attack you tell a patient that he now has a myocardial infarction. You explain this as:

A) a blockage of his smallest cardiac veins (venae cordae minimae).
B) an area of his myocardium that is necrotic.
C) an area of his myocardium that is fibrillating.
D) an area of his myocardium that is paradoxically contracting.
E) an area of his myocardium that is edematous.


Ans: B

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