Does AMI affect the skeletal system?

Answer 1

Only directly if the person needs open heart surgery for a coronary artery bypass and they have to cut through the bone to open their chest at the sternum to get to the heart.

An AMI is an Acute Myocardial Infarction, which is better known as a "heart attack". It is a sudden onset of symptoms (acute onset) that usually include severe chest pain, shortness of breath, sweating, arm or jaw pain, etc. These symptoms are caused by damage to the muscle of the heart.

Myocardial just refers to the heart muscle and Infarction means tissue death. When you have an AMI there is a lack of oxygen to the heart muscle caused by obstructed blood flow, ruptured aneurysm, or some other reason the heart tissue is not getting enough blood/oxygen supply. When a spot on the heart is deprived of blood flow long enough, then the tissue in that spot can die. When the heart is injured this way it is unable to beat properly because the dead muscle is not doing its part and is sometimes floppy and in the way if a big enough portion of the heart.