Many people think that the symptom of myocardial infarction is chest pain
But there are actually many atypical symptoms
Stomach pain, shoulder and neck pain, toothache, migraine…
A few days ago, the emergency department of Ningbo Ninth Hospital
It’s a shameful incident
23-year-old boy died of acute myocardial infarction
At 7:00 p.m., the 120 ambulance roared and brought a male patient. The patient’s breathing and cardiac arrest were actually already pale and stiff. The icy straight line showed that the man’s heart had stopped beating for more than half an hour before being sent to the hospital.
The medical staff at the scene did their best to rescue them, but they were unable to recover. What a pity. The boy is only 23 years old.
The family cannot accept this fact. They cried to the emergency doctor Xu Hao: The child’s health has always been fine, and there is nothing wrong with it. The weather has been cold these few days, and I said that I have stomach pains and asthma. I suspected that I had caught a cold, so I didn’t go to the hospital.
Why did the stomachache suddenly die? Everyone finds it unbelievable. Doctors, like detectives, set out to find the cause.
Troponin over 135! This is a marker of myocardial injury and necrosis, and the normal value is less than 0.1. Combined with clinical manifestations and examination results, it was initially determined that the culprit was acute myocardial infarction!
Typical myocardial infarction pain site
There is a kind of stomach pain called myocardial infarction
The 23-year-old is not the first to experience an acute myocardial infarction, which presents with stomach pain. At the end of last year, emergency doctor Xu Hao also encountered the same tragedy.
A 43-year-old middle-aged man was only discovered half an hour after he had suffered cardiac arrest and was sent to emergency care, but it was too late.
The story of the family is the same as that of the family of the 23-year-old boy. Usually in good health, but also like to exercise. Two days before the incident, I said that I had stomach pain. I thought it was a stomach problem. I took stomach medicine, but it did not relieve. Later, the pain intensified, irritability, and profuse sweating. It soon developed to the point of being unable to rescue.
After investigation, the cause of death was acute myocardial infarction. The family was very puzzled. He had no heart disease before, so why did he have a heart attack due to stomach pain?
Later I learned that the middle-aged man had a history of smoking for more than 10 years, half a pack a day, which may be the culprit of myocardial infarction.
Atypical myocardial infarction complaining of stomach pain
Dr. Xu Hao said that the myocardial infarction that we usually encounter with chest pain as the main symptom is a typical myocardial infarction, but there are also atypical myocardial infarction. According to statistics, more than one third of patients with myocardial infarction in my country have atypical clinical symptoms, and most of them are atypical myocardial infarction.
The above are all painful sites of atypical myocardial infarction
The most common manifestation of atypical myocardial infarction is stomach pain, as well as headache, back pain, chest tightness and suffocation, nausea and vomiting, and profuse sweating.
Such myocardial infarction alarms are often not detected in time, leading to tragedy and regrets.
In fact, myocardial infarction simply means persistent angina pectoris. Angina pectoris caused by atypical myocardial infarction is usually a few minutes, usually no more than 15 to 20 minutes.
If the above discomfort lasts for more than 20 minutes, or is accompanied by discomfort such as frequent death or profuse sweating, myocardial infarction should be highly suspected. Don’t move around, dial 120 immediately!
(Ningbo Evening News)