Need opinion on my results

[mo1967]

Hello,

I'm a 41 year old African American Male. I am 6'3" and weigh 255 lbs. I run the treadmill 3-4 days a week averaging 3 to 4 miles per run. I wen to the emergency room because my breathing didn't feel normal.  The 2D eco diagnosed me with LVH 1.5mm, 1st degree AV Block and an ejection fraction of 65% my CKMG Fraction upon arival was 1.57ng/ml and fell to 0.81ng/ml. My CKMB Index upon arival was 0.85 and fell to 0.56 several hours later. My Troponin1 level was 0.03 upon arival and fell to 0.01 several hours later. The cardiologist is not certain weather I had a heart attack or not. My question is from the results listed, what is your opinion?

Thanks

[Jerry_NJ]

Too technical for me, but the EF of 65% looks great, that's not the problem.

Didn't your cardiologist suggest anything, including do nothing?

[mo1967]

The doctor has me scheduled for a nuclear stress test Wednesday. The problem is that the ER doctor suggested that i had a heart attack with my blood levels, which is scaring me.

[Jerry_NJ]

Yes, these are scary subjects.  I think many people have "minor" heart attacks, that means, I think, that the muscle damage to the heart is very limited.  I guess that's why they prescribed a nuclear stress test.  That is the most effective non-intrusive (if you don't count the injection of nuclear material in your blood intrusive) way to learn if one has any blockage in the blood to the heart muscles - at least that's how I understand it.  I think the nuclear stress test is more prone to false postive than false negative, that's been the case with me.  I've "failed" nuclear stress tests a couple of times, but when examined with a cardio catheter I was found to have no blockage.  

Be positive, you're walking around and there's nothing currently threatening.  You have time to find out what/if is wrong and work on a fix.

Good luck.

[mo1967]

Thanks for the info and positive word. That goes a long way