"tissue damage after heart attack"?
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ISCHEMIA - Myocardium ( heart muscle) is alive but inefficient to do its work, because of narrowing of the artery that supply that particular area.\n\nINFARCTION: Death of the mycardium, due to lack of blood supply to that particular area. \n\nCertain type of Ischemia can be reversible, by proper perfusion therapy at proper TIME, but not the all ischemia, and infarction are reversible.
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No you can not undo any damage that is done to your arteries unless you have bypass surgery or stents inserted to open up the arteries. But the thing you should worry about is the heart attack you could have with clogged arteries... Some heart attacks you will not live threw... Contact a cardiologist make an appointment, have a stress test, echo-cardiogram, and cardiac cath done to see how much damage you already have. I have taken care of may patients younger than you that has already had bypass surgery and have died of major heart attacks...
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Heart Attack---What Can Be Done?\n- Recognizing and Acting On the Symptoms <*\n- Actions for Survival\n- How Can the Risk Be Reduced?\n- The Road to Recovery\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/19961208/article_01.htm\n\nThe Marvels of the Circulatory System\nhttp://watchtower.org/library/g/2001/3/22/article_01.htm
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OK... time to make some clarifications. A 64-slice CT scanner is sometimes used as an alternative to more invasive coronary angiography. The fact that your CT scan showed two areas of blockage means you should probably undergo a coronary angiogram to verify these findings and to treat the disease if it is there. You should definitely start taking an aspirin, as this has been shown in studies to reduce the risk of heart attack in patients with known coronary disease. In addition, there are a handful of other drugs that have been shown in very large, well designed scientific trials to reduce your risk of heart attack, heart failure, and death. These include a beta-blocker (one kind of blood pressure medicine), an ACE-inhibitor (another blood pressure medicine), and a cholesterol-lowering drug in the "statin" class. Several alternative treatments have been tried and pushed in the past including chelation therapy, but the truth is that none of these have been shown to reverse coronary artery blockages. In fact, none of the drugs mentioned above have been shown to reliable reverse coronary blockages either. BUT you don't necessarily need these blockages to shrink for the medications to provide a benefit.\n\nNow, I have to say that IT ISN'T TRUE THAT YOUR 90% BLOCKAGE COULD KILL YOU AT ANY MOMENT. Sure, it's POSSIBLE that you could drop dead tomorrow, but that 90% blockage probably grew gradually over the course of a few years so it is unlikely to suddenly close off at any moment. Don't panic! On the other hand, it will probably continue to progress to 95%... 97%... 99%... and eventually lead to such significant blockage that some of your heart muscle will fail to get enough blood flow, even when you are at rest. This can lead to something called a non-ST elevation MI - a heart attack. The more upstream that blockage is, the more heart muscle it supplies and the more life-threatening that heart attack can be.\n\nWith the newer technologies at our disposal, most significant blockages in the coronary arteries can be opened during the angiogram with a small, drug-eluting stent. These have a very good tendency to stay open over many years, thus avoiding the need for surgery in most patients. However, depending on the location of the blockage, some patients may still do better with surgery.\n\nI strongly urge you to see your doctor and get the coronary angiography done. It is not something that you have to do in the next day or two, but it should definitely be taken care of in the next couple of weeks. Believe me, if there were natural medicines that are effective for treating coronary disease, your insurance company would force you to take those before it agreed to shell out $15,000 for a stent.
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That is a weird question, as we don't look for "spots" on the heart.\n\nHere are some possible answers:\n\nInfection - myocarditis\nInfarct - site of a heart attack, where there is dead heart muscle\ntumor
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I got that before too, a couple of times already. The moment i had it i thought i'm getting a heart attack but mine always go away after a day. I think i kinda pulled the muscles while sleeping. If your lung still hurts after a day or two i suggest u see a doctor. Take care!
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Ahh sounds like a definate case of torn blood vessel. The brusing gave it away. Most blood vessels have little innervation, so when their torn or damaged you usually don't feel it. The swelling afterward was due to a buildup of blood under the tissue where the tear took place. Most pain from a ruptured vessel comes from the pressure the blood puts on surrounding tissue. Sometimes though the pressure is just right and no pain can be felt if there is enough room for the blood to drain to. As long as you still have sensation on your hand and good grip I think I wouldn't be worried to much, but if you are worried please see your Dr. They can further evaluate any results and see what else if anything needs to be done. Good Luck!
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go to the Dr. it could be a heart attack!
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Both heart attack and stroke are due to ischemia, which is restricted blood flow to the organ. Both of these organs have a high requirement for oxygen, so reduced or absent blood flow to either organ quickly leads to cell damage and then cell death.\n\n In a heart attack, blood flow is usually restricted or blocked in the coronary arteries, leading to MI (myocardial infarction) in the part of the heart supplied by the troubled artery. Other possibilities for heart attack include such things as arrhythmias and lung problems, such as pulmonary embolism.\n\nIn a stroke, a part of the brain loses its blood supply due to blockage or rupture of the vessels that supply it. This can be anywhere from small and transient, such as in a "mini-stroke", where a clot temporarily blocks a section of blood flow (commonly called a TIA, or transient ischemic attack) up to a large vessel that is permanently blocked (or bleeding) leading to ischemia and necrosis (cell death) to a larger section of the brain, with critical or fatal results.\n\nIn either case, quick medical attention can often limit or prevent long-term damage. The faster the oxygen supply can be restored, the less harm that is done.
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Yes you should find out the cause of these pains , then you can decide if you need to worry. If you dont find out the cause then I am going to worry. I have had several sucessful heart attacks, Angioplasty , and quadrupal Bipass Surgary . I am now 64 years old , my first heart attack was when I was 45 but I know many people who have had them when they were much younger. You should know that one of every three people who have heart attacks have little or no warning except sudden death. Dont worry ...Just do somthing!!!
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To be brutal it is pretty much impossible to completely recover. True CHF is weakening of the heart muscle to the point where it can no longer pump enough volume to keep the blood from backing up. The weakening itself is going to be there. It is very possible you were diagnosed very early and with proper diet and medication you are able to keep the area beating strong enough to not have problems. If you stopped taking care of yourself, however, it would return as it was. This is mostly a conjecture since I don't have any history or medication or what the MD actually told you but, no a complete disappearance of the disease isn't possible.
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I think it was a heart attack
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When a part of the body is deprived of oxygen...for example, from a blocked artery, it uses alternative maetabolic pathways to generate energy...this leads to potential toxic metabolities, free radicals, low pH states...when the blockage is cleared, then all the "bad chemicals" are now free to flow into the nearby tissues...this can actually affect and cause the noraml tissue to get injured or behave improperly...as in reperfusion cardiac arrhythmias after using clotbustung drugs
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I have heard this before.  I have also noticed that everyone I know who has had a heart attack (and, obviously, survived) has a deep crease in each ear lobe.  But I don't know if it is a medically accepted fact or not.  So, thanks for asking, and I am going to watch the answers to this question.  (I am a non-creaser myself, but have almost no lobe to speak of, so take little comfort from that LOL)
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yes, but i also had intermittent episodes of extreme squishing pain as well.  I couldn't breathe or sit up.  Lucky for me it was only an inflamation of the heart tissue lining.  Tylenol and sleep.....
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Look at this website and get to a doctor immediately!!\n\nhttp://www.heartinfo.org/hrtatkang.html
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Chest discomfort. Most heart attacks involve discomfort in the center of the chest that lasts for more than a few minutes, or goes away and comes back. The discomfort can feel like uncomfortable pressure, squeezing, fullness, or pain.\n\nDiscomfort in other areas of the upper body. Can include pain or discomfort in one or both arms, the back, neck, jaw, or stomach.\n\nShortness of breath. Often comes along with chest discomfort. But it also can occur before chest discomfort.\n\nOther symptoms. May include breaking out in a cold sweat, nausea, or light-headedness\n\nno hair loss is not a symptom\n\nhan