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MINOCA : When a heart attack is not a heart attack

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

On the basis of these findings we told her that she had suffered a heart attack. She asked me why I felt she had had a heart attack and I explained to her that she had had chest pains and the blood test indicating damage to the heart was elevated and that was all we needed to say that she had had a heart attack.

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The three things that can go wrong with the heart

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

If the pump is unable to pump blood out (either because it is defective or because something is making it more difficult to pump blood out in some way) then less blood goes around and this can damage our vital organs and be dangerous. So what tests tell us about the heart as a pump?