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.
Non-ST-segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction (NSTEMI): there is no ST-segment change but there is myocardial necrosis for release of a biomarker such as the troponins or CK-MB. ST-segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI): there is ST-segment elevation and myocardial necrosis with release of a biomarker such as the troponins or CK-MB.