ECG after an heart attack

Hi

I am 38 years and had an heart attack a month ago. Afetr an angioplasty, I was in the hospital for 5 days. I was having palpitation for last two weeks but not anymore. So as a precation my GP asked me to do an ECG. Yesterday I did an ECG and found it was not normal. When I discussed with my family doctor, she compared yesterday's ECG with the one I had taken on the day I was discharged from the hospital. The doctor came to conlusion that bot the the ECGs are identical and nothing to worry. She was telling me that my heart is never going to be perfect after the the heart attack so as a result ECG will also not be normal. my question is, can this be true? also the doctors at the hospital were saying my ECG was not normal but they let me go home. They didn't give me any explaination at that time.  Thanks, Larry

[cardiomohs]

SIR

FROM UR HISTORY AND OTHER

AFTER AN HEART ATTACK OR MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION  HEART HAD AN IMPACT AND IT WAS REDUCTION OF BLOOD SUPPLY TO ITS MUSCLE

SO THE FUNCTION OF HEART AND ITS GEOMETRY ALTERED DUE TO INFARCTION

IT WILL TAKE MONTHS TO RECOVER FOR HAERT TO SHOW U NORMAL ECG  BUT SOMETIMES IF U HAD MI AND IF U RECEIVED TRAETMANT AFTER 6 HRS THE ECG CHNAGES MAY BE PERMENANT

SO DONT WORRY NOW U UNDERWENT ANGIOPLASTY AND DOING FINE


TAKE UR MEDICINES REGULARLY AND DO ECHO / TME AFTER AN YEAR


ALL THE BEST

DR MOHAN

[ed34]

Before and after my angioplasty my ECG was normal, which is why I'm glad they did a troponin blood test to diagnose the problem. After my bypass surgery my ECG did change slightly in that it showed the left ventricle was taking a little long time to fully relax. This is because the surgery cause it to become a bit stiff but is expected and usually returns to normal over months, which it did. If the heart muscle that was deprived of oxygen in your heart was kept too long, it would have died, never to recover. However, it would not be normal practice to insert a stent to reopen a blood supply to a dead area of tissue, there simply is no point because it would never use it. There would be no point in risking stroke/another heart attack in doing this. It is much more likely that your heart tissue was stunned, where it is alive but in a kind of knocked out state. Once Oxygen returns, normal chemical processes and repairs can resume. Over several months, depending on the size of the area affected, the tissue should fully recover. What the heart does it adapt, the healthy muscle will compensate over time by becoming thicker/stronger to make up for the weaker tissue. To help limit this, you are usually given a beta blocker which blocks the beta receptor cells in a region of the heart that react to hormones such as adrenaline.

[larry71]

many thanks for your prompt response....appreciate it ....cheers,