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Causes Of Heart Attack ACS and MI.

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                                                                     ACS and MI Acute coronary syndrome or ACS is a set of one or more conditions that cause the blockage of blood flow to the heart muscles resulting in a myocardial infarction. or MI the heart is a muscular organ that pumps blood containing oxygen and nutrients to the rest of the body. the left ventricle is the main pumping chamber of the heart and contracts to send oxygenated blood to the rest of the body, through the aorta several smaller arteries known as coronary arteries are connected to the aorta and supply the muscles of the heart with the necessary oxygen and nutrients. In Acute coronary syndrome there is a blockage in the blood flow through the coronary arteries, usually due to an atherosclerotic plaque a coronary artery spasm or a coronary artery dissections. In atherosclerosis the continued deposition of a fatty plaque results in the narrowing of the involved coronary artery rupture of this plaque results in t