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