Talk:Infarction

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"...In medicine, infarction is necrosis of tissue due to upstream obstruction of its arterial blood supply. It is the culmination of ischemia. ..."

I'm not an expert, and may not be reading these pages correctly, but I do have a question that someone might be able to help me with:

My personal understanding is that the term, 'Infarction' refers to: 'the development of an infarct'. It refers to the process that 'brings about or causes the infarct'.

The above quote appears, to me, to be in conflict with my own understanding of the term, and also with the definition of, 'infarct', that I found on the Wiktionary page: infarct hppt://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/infarct, which states, in part:

"infarct (plural infarcts)

(pathology) an area of dead tissue caused by a loss of blood supply; a localized necrosis"

It appears to me that the author of this article is confusing the 2 terms (infarct/infarction).

I'm just asking. I don't feel qualified to critisize. I'm just confused and asking for clarification.

thanks for handling this question, and thanks for all that you're doing with the 'wiki' projects. I hope that I will be able to contribute in some way, some time. Al 22:50, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Pulmonary Embolism
Should this link be on this page? A pulmonary embolism refers the blockage of deoxygenated blood, and does not directly lead to pulmonary necrosis. In fact, pulmonary infarcts exist seperately from pulmonary embolisms, unless a certain pulmonologist I was speaking to was wrong (it's happened before) 131.191.59.110 17:18, 18 July 2007 (UTC)


 * I agree, and removed pulmonary embolism. Mikael Häggström (talk) 14:06, 30 April 2010 (UTC)