Signs of a microinfarction

According to statistics, every fifth person suffering from coronary artery disease (ischemic heart disease) does not even suspect that he has had a heart attack. As a rule, he knows this by accident. Symptoms of a microinfarction, transferred by a person, can be detected in a cardiogram.

However, it should be noted that once experienced angina, a person is unlikely to confuse it with anything else. For this ailment is characterized by a mismatch of incoming blood relative to the required volume to ensure normal cardiac work. When an attack occurs, characteristic severe pain behind the sternum, in some cases, the pain gives to the nape of the neck, shoulder, solar plexus. With pain lasting more than twenty minutes, it is necessary to urgently call an ambulance, because in these cases, the heart muscle is damaged.

Nitroglycerin is usually used to relieve pain. After taking the pill should take a static position (lie down or sit down) and try to move as little as possible. In the absence of effect, even from repeated taking of the medication should not be delayed with the call of the ambulance.

In some cases, people do not feel the signs of a microinfarction. Absence of pain, in particular, can be associated with a low pain threshold on the background of alcohol dependence, diabetes mellitus, nervous disorders and other.

Microinfarction may be similar to bouts of bronchitis or asthma. After the disappearance of pain, many people forget about them. In many cases, they do not even suspect that these were signs of a microinfarction. After the attacks, as a rule, there is an increase in temperature, in combination with the manifestation of dyspnea, a slight cold sensation is created.

The signs of the microinfarction can be masked as signs of poisoning. Thus, the defeat of the artery in the area near the diaphragm can provoke pain in the area of the stomach.

After the attacks, in a number of cases, there is no deterioration in well-being. Despite the defeat in the heart muscle , the body is able to cope with the elimination of a blood clot in the coronary artery. In cases of short delay in blood flow (less than an hour), slight damage to the heart muscle is observed.

The risk of seizures is especially great in obese people with diabetes, arterial hypertension. In addition, smokers are also exposed to it.

In people who have had a microinfarction, the consequences can be expressed in the occurrence of arrhythmias. And they, in turn, can provoke a sudden death. The most severe consequences appear after attacks caused by the pathology of arterial vessels of small caliber that feed the heart muscle. As practice shows, in the absence of treatment, these processes progress very quickly.

An effective and most accessible method for diagnosing an attack is an express test. When identifying a microinfarction, you need to call an ambulance. Before her arrival, you should take nitroglycerin.

In many cases, the development of seizures occurs against a background of relatively normal well-being and does not show any obvious signals.

For each patient who has a microinfarction, treatment is strictly individual. Therapy is prescribed only by the attending physician. To apply independent treatment is inexpedient and extremely inefficient, due to the presence of various complications (heart failure, rhythm disturbance, cardiosclerosis and others).

In general, therapy is carried out by coronalectics, beta-blockers (in the absence of complications), which increase the energy of the heart by means. Mandatory treatment includes trace elements, including magnesium and potassium.