# Ischemia

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## Ischemic disorder

Ischemic disorders are defined by a morphology of ischemic structural change. This need not be permanent, but it is assumed that all ischemia results in some structural alterations at the molecular level.

## Ischemic heart disease

Ischemic heart disease includes myocardial infarction, myocardial ischemia (without infarction), angina, and other disorders of the heart that have ischemic structural change (reversible or non-reversible) as a *defining characteristic*.

Coronary arteriosclerosis can, of course, be present without causing ischemia, so coronary arteriosclerosis is not a *subtype* of ischemic heart disease.

Likewise, there are causes of myocardial ischemia and infarction other than coronary arteriosclerosis, so ischemic heart disease is not a *subtype* of coronary arteriosclerosis.

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