Silent Heart Attack Symptoms
Introduction
Silent heart attack symptoms are not resembling the actual heart attack symptoms where the patients are having severe chest
pain. Chest pain in heart patients are described as the gift by the god to become aware of the illness and to prevent the further attack.
Silent Attack is preceded by Silent
Ischemia (Decreased blood supply to the heart muscle)
What is a Silent Heart Attack?
Silent heart attack is described as the death of heart muscle due to complete blockage of blood supply to the heart muscle which does not produce any
symptoms..
Since there is damage to the nerve supply to the coronary arteries which supplies blood to the heart the patient may not be get chest pain with even in severe heart
attacks.
Around 15% percentage of patient having silent heart attack to the over all incidence.
Victims Of Silent Heart Attack
Diabetic patients are more prone to suffer from this kind of attack.
Uncontrolled Diabetes
and Heart Attack with out pain contributes major proportion in the heart
attack deaths.
Old aged people also have the chance of silent attack.
Heart
Attack Symptoms in Women are also not typical and they are also having silent
attacks more than men..
How to Diagnose Silent Heart Attack
In most of the situations the silent heart attack is diagnosed by EKG or
ECG(Electrocardiogram)
and
heart stress
test.
Some of the patients may have mild chest pain or breathlessness and
sweating.
Since the symptoms of silent heart attack symptoms are not typical
undiagnosed deaths are common all around the world.
Absence of pain in suspected cases
does not exclude the heart attacks.
Because the heart itself has the reserve to function normally without
showing any clinical symptoms.
So if you have suspicion of heart attack always consult your cardiologist
to rule out heart attack by under going normal electrocardiogram and stress
test.
Silent Heart Attack ecg tracing
When the patient is having silent ischemia ST segment
depression is seen in the electrocardiogram
reading.
In the condition of silent heart attack ST segment elevation is seen.
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