According to statistics, every fifth person suffering from coronary heart disease (coronary heart disease) does not even suspect that he suffered a heart attack. As a rule, he becomes aware of this by accident. Signs of a microinfarction transferred by a person can be detected with a cardiogram.
However, it should be noted that once having experienced angina, a person is unlikely to confuse it with anything else. This disease is characterized by a mismatch of the incoming blood relative to the required volume to ensure normal cardiac function. When an attack occurs, characteristic severe pains behind the sternum, in some cases, the pain radiates to the neck, shoulder, and solar plexus. For pain lasting more than twenty minutes, an ambulance must be urgently called, as in these cases damage to the heart muscle occurs.
Nitroglycerin is usually used to relieve pain. After taking the pill, you 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 administration of the medication should not be delayed with an ambulance call.
In some cases, a person does not feel the signs of a microinfarction. The absence of pain, in particular, can be associated with a low pain threshold against the background of alcohol dependence, diabetes mellitus, nervous disorders and other things.
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 attacks, as a rule, an increase in temperature is observed, in combination with the manifestation of shortness of breath, a feeling of a mild cold is created.
Signs of a microinfarction may disguise themselves as signs of poisoning. So, damage to the artery in the area near the diaphragm can provoke pain in the region of the stomach.
After attacks in some cases, there is no deterioration in well-being. Despite the damage that occurred in the heart muscle , the body is able to independently cope with the elimination of a blood clot in the coronary artery. In cases of a short delay in blood flow (less than an hour), minor damage to the heart muscle is observed.
The risk of seizures is especially high in patients with obesity, diabetes, hypertension. In addition, smokers are also affected.
In people who have had a microinfarction, the consequences can be expressed in the occurrence of arrhythmias. And they, in turn, can provoke sudden death. The most serious consequences appear after seizures due to the pathology of small-caliber arterial vessels that nourish the heart muscle. As practice shows, in the absence of treatment, these processes progress very quickly.
A fairly effective and most affordable method for diagnosing an attack is an express test. If a microinfarction is detected, an ambulance must be called. Nitroglycerin should be taken before her arrival.
In many cases, the development of seizures occurs against the background of relatively normal health and does not show any obvious signals.
For each patient who has a microinfarction, treatment is carried out strictly individually. Therapy is prescribed only by the attending physician. It is impractical and extremely ineffective to use independent treatment, due to the presence of various complications (heart failure, rhythm disturbance, cardiosclerosis, etc.).
In general, the therapy is carried out by coronalists, 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.