Cardiovascular diseases, including acute myocardial infarction (MI) and stroke, are the major cause of mortality worldwide. 1 MI is an acute event of heart attack leading to myocardium injury due to the coronary lack of oxygen and nutrients supply. 2 A coronary artery can be blocked by a clot or thrombus, narrowed by atheroma plaques (atherosclerosis) or temporarily closed by a spasm (a spontaneous contraction of an artery of variable duration), the blood flow is thus blocked. 3 Other rare causes of a myocardial infarction can
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