Smoking for 11 years, a young man had an acute myocardial infarction
The doctor has just successfully treated a 28-year-old man with an acute myocardial infarction, with a high prognosis of death. The patient had no previous medical findings but had smoked for 11 years.
On June 3, news from Hoan My Cuu Long General Hospital said that the hospital’s doctors had successfully given first aid to a male TQK patient (28 years old, living in H. Go Quao, Kien Giang) suffering from an infarction. Acute myocardial infarction, high mortality prognosis. Presently health is recovering well.
TQK patient works as a driver and smoke due to the pressure of work. Before being admitted to the hospital, the patient was sleeping, suddenly, with severe left chest pain, pain spreading to the neck, left jaw, and back, accompanied by a feeling of shortness of breath, the pain was constantly increasing, so the family immediately took it to the emergency room. assist.
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| Doctor examining patient K. PHUONG CHI |
At Hoan My Cuu Long General Hospital, through examination and performing paraclinical techniques, the doctor diagnosed patient K. with acute myocardial infarction, with a high prognosis of death. Immediately, the CODE STEMI process (process coronary intervention emergency for heart attack patients) is activated. The patient was urgently taken to intervention, DSA results showed acute occlusion of the left anterior interventricular branch of the left coronary artery, the team of doctors aspirated the thrombus and placed a drug-eluting stent on this coronary branch.
The intervention took place successfully after about 30 minutes of CODE STEMI activation, the coronary artery was completely recanalized. After the intervention, the patient gradually reduced symptoms chest painthe survival index was stable.
Doctor.CK2 Nguyen Thi Thuy My, Deputy Head of Emergency Department, Hoan My Cuu Long General Hospital, said that this is one of the cases of young patients suffering from acute myocardial infarction that the hospital has ever received. The patient had no previous medical findings but had smoked for 11 years.
Myocardial infarction is a dangerous disease that can affect the patient’s life. The disease is often caused by coronary thrombosis, causing narrowing of the artery branches or due to hematological diseases that cause hypercoagulability, resulting in coronary thrombosis.
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