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Heart Disease - Heart Attack
Heart Attack - Signs and Symptoms
- Pain or discomfort in the chest, shoulders, arms, neck, jaw, back or abdomen
- Shortness of breath
- Other symptoms may include breaking out in a cold sweat, having nausea and vomiting, feeling light-headed or dizzy, or losing consciousness
Heart Attack - Diagnosis
- Cardiac catheterization
- Cardiac troponin test
- Coronary angiography
- Creatine Kinase (CK or CK-MB) test
- Echocardiogram
- Electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG)
- Exercise stress test (cardiac stress test)
- Myoglobin test
- Nuclear heart scan
- Pharmacologic stress test
- Pulse oximeter
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