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Does my heart get damaged during heart attack?
| YES, when one gets a heart attack blood supply is completely cutoff to a certain portion of heart. If the blood supply – oxygen supply is not restored to that part of the heart within the first 60-90 mins then the muscles of the heart dies due to lack of oxygen. This creates the permanent scar . The scarred part of the heart will always remain dead and the heart has to compensate the blood supply to the body through the rest of the heart, which is alive. The degree of scarring cannot be predicted during an heart attack but by restoring the blood supply at the earliest the damage to the heart can be prevented or vastly reduced. |