Infarction

Tissue death (necrosis) caused by a local lack of oxygen, due to an obstruction of the tissue's blood supply.Myocardial infarction

The resulting lesion is referred to as an infarct (from the Latin infarctus, “stuffed into”).

see Necrosis from infarction

If an old infarct communicates with a ventricle it is called a porencephalic cyst.

Brainstem infarction.

see Cerebral infarction.

see Cerebellar infarction.

see Malignant middle cerebral artery infarction.

Watershed cerebral infarction.

Spinal cord infarction