PrincessKaimi
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Well, some heart attacks are instantly fatal, and some lead to immediate congestive heart failure, and I think those are a bit more serious than ones that can be helped by a stent.
Here in the U.S., anyway, there is a definite scale from mild to fatal; a mild heart attack usually means the enzymes from heart damage show up in the blood but the ECG is back to normal by the time it's taken. Such a heart attack used to go undetected via ECG, but now blood work reveals them. In the case of some of my relatives, no heart damage could be detected via any sort of imaging, but heart cells were damaged and that damage showed up in the bloodwork (has to be done within a day or two IIRC). That's what's termed a "mild" heart attack here, anyway.
Here in the U.S., anyway, there is a definite scale from mild to fatal; a mild heart attack usually means the enzymes from heart damage show up in the blood but the ECG is back to normal by the time it's taken. Such a heart attack used to go undetected via ECG, but now blood work reveals them. In the case of some of my relatives, no heart damage could be detected via any sort of imaging, but heart cells were damaged and that damage showed up in the bloodwork (has to be done within a day or two IIRC). That's what's termed a "mild" heart attack here, anyway.