Blood leaks back into the chambers rather than flowing forward through the heart or into an artery. In the United States, backflow most often is due to prolapse. Prolapse is when the flaps of the valve flop or bulge back into an upper heart chamber during a heartbeat. Prolapse mainly affects the mitral valve.
NSTEMI is a shorthand medical term for non-ST segment elevation myocardial infarction. It is one type of myocardial infarction also called heart attack.
They are not intended to supplant physician judgement with respect to particular patients or special clinical situations.â. -IDSA/ATS Guidelines 2016. A 73 year old man is admitted from a nursing home for an NSTEMI and is treated on the telemetry floor.