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Can a 16 year old have a heart attack?

This question looks straight out of a MCQ paper for cardiology PG exam.Q. Causes of myocardial infarction (Heart attack) in a 16 year old boya. ALCAPAb. Familial Hypercholesterolemiac. Cocaine addictiond. Tackotsubo syndromee. All of the above - Yes! you have guessed it right.ALCAPA is a rare, by-birth disease where the Abnormal Left Coronary Artery takes origin from the Pulmonary Artery. The pulmonary artery carry blue deoxygenated blood and has low perfusion pressure, making them prone to heart attack at early age.ALCAPA supplying the blue area on the right side diagram.Familial Hypercholesterolemia (FH)Rare genetic variation where bad cholesterol (LDL) is sky high; sometimes more than 500mg% making them highly prone for childhood heart attack.Runs in families.Cocaine causes intense narrowing of coronary arteries (coronary Spasm).Tackotsubo syndrome is a disease caused by intense mental stress where the coronary arteries narrow under the influence of a tsunami of catecholamine (stress hormone). Normally affects adults (more in females). Recently we had a young boy who came in with ‘tackotsubo’ because his parents forced him to change school.The disease gets its unusual name from a Japanese device that’s used by fishermen to catch small octopus. The octopus enters through the narrow neck and gets caught inside. The damaged left ventricle (pumping chamber of the Heart) looks like a tackotsubo in ‘stress cardiomyopathy’Left - Angiogram of Left Venrticle; Right - Octopus catching device.A Technical Tip For Doctor Quorans.Recently my resident doctor rushed in to show me this ECG of a young boy. The ECG shows a massive heart attack.Our resident doctors tension subsided when I pointed out the copy icon (circled at left top) of the ECG. The copy mark on top indicates that the machine is copying the last recorded ECG from memory. The technician inadvertently pressed the copy key to record the last patients ECG (not this boy’s) and created a transient panic. So this was just a copy of the previous patient’s ECG with myocardial infarction (heart attack).Problem is, the copy icon is too small unless you know about it.Top row first button is copy icon.Repeat ECG was normal.The boy went home, the resident to the cafeteria.

What does a heart attack feel like?

I had a major heart attack in 2014, and here is my story:I woke up not feeling well - I couldn’t explain it… I just didn’t feel well.Around 9am, my mother and father stopped by; they had gone to the stations of the cross at the church right down the road. I began feeling a pain in my right arm, but I tried to ignore it. My mother looked at me and said that I didn’t look well, but I told her I was fine, so her and my father left.So, it was just me and my 23 year old son. He saw me rubbing my arm and asked me what was wrong. I told him I wasn’t sure - that it was like a pressure pain that was moving up my arm. He said it sounded like a heart attack, and I laughed because I thought that I was too young for a heart attack. In 2014 I was going to be 43, I believe.Anyhow, I told him that I was going to take a hot shower and put the water on my arm but that I was going to leave the door open in case I needed him to call someone. I got in the shower. At that point, the pain was in my upper arm and neck. I stood under the hot water and aimed on my neck, but it did not help. I was uncomfortable, but I managed to get out and get dressed.I then told my son that maybe a nap would make me feel better, but after just two minutes of lying down, I was too uncomfortable to bear it. I thought that I would do a breathing treatment to make myself feel better. To this day, I still wonder why in the world I thought that a breathing treatment would be effective even though I was breathing just fine and the pain was in my arm and neck.Anyway, I took out my nebulizer and albuterol and started the machine. I took one deep breath and the pain shot up from about a 5 to past a 10. I cried for my son to call 911.I made it to the local hospital, and they performed many tests and gave by nitro glycerin four times. They then stabilized me so that I could fly in the Flight for Life helicopter into the city for emergency surgery. In the city, I had a stent put in. That night, the nurse accidentally opened up my surgical site and blood splattered everywhere, making me lose so much blood that I needed two transfusions.I was told that I was lucky to be alive, and that I should have come in to the hospital when I first felt the pain in my arm and neck, and that that would have saved me a lot of trouble. I also suffered a mild brain injury because I didn’t have enough oxygen going to my head.