What happens to you after you have a heart attack?

Answer 1

During a heart attack, part of your heart starts dying fast, caused by no oxygen, the quicker you seek help the less that dies. So a heart after a heart attack with-out quick medical attention will be partly dead and black, and the rest of the heart will have to work harder to make up for it the rest of the time the person is alive.

Sometimes the rest of the heart can NOT work hard enough to make up for the dead areas of the heart. This will cause the person's heart'd ejection fraction to be lower and may cause the person to have congestive heart failure and die or cause them to have a heart transplant.

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Answer 2

1) a chunk of heart muscle dies. During the process of cellular death, the tissue is electrically unstable, and there is a good chance that the heart will go into a severely disorganized rhythm (ventricular fibrillation) and stop effectively beating - and you will die -- unless somebody zaps your chest with electricity (defibrillation ) to jump start the heart rhythm again (that is why is it a very good idea to call 911 at the beginning of a heart attack- so there will be a defibrillator near you.
2) if you live, the dead chunk of heart muscle will keep the main pumping chamber of the heart (left ventricle) from beating effectively, and the amount of blood pumped out with each heart beat will be decreased, proportionally to the size of the dead chunk. medicines like beta blockers or ace inhibitors (types of blood pressure medicines) can lower the blood pressure and make it easier for the heart to beat, and can lower the chance of developing heart failure.
3) there is a chance that another fatty plaque (deposit of fatty tissue in the wall of a heart artery) could rupture, causing another blood clot and another heart attack later. Taking aspirin can help prevent that. medicines like statins can decrease the build-up of fatty tissue in the heart artery walls and can stabilize the plaques, so they are not so likely to rupture.
4) most people who survive do OK, unless the chunk(s) of dead heart muscle are so large that heart failure develops. That is another story...

Answer 3

Cardiac muscle tissue affected by the heart attack dies.

A heart attack is also called a myocardial infarction. Myocardium just means heart muscle, and infarction means tissue death due to lack of oxygenated blood flow.

Therefore, a heart attack is death of muscle tissue as a result of reduced blood flow to the heart. This is usually because the blood vessels that bring oxygen-rich blood to the heart (the coronary arteries) become blocked by a clot (also called a thrombus or embolism). When that coronary artery becomes blocked, the heart muscle (myocardium) does not receive its valuable oxygen-rich blood flow (infarction), and you have a myocardial infarction.

Answer 4

The heart is much weaker and it starts to recover for a long time

Answer 5

i guess u will die r the peolpe aroud will cry