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What Causes Massive Heart Attacks In Terminally Ill By Cancer?

can you tell me if a person has terminal ill cancer cannot have treatment as had it before. and then has heart problems heart attack and is adviced to have a stent fitted 5 days after heart attack and then has operation for stent extreme force was used then patient took to recovery has a massive heart attack and had cpr and the code blue called and took back in operating room and procedure done and has another heart attack and the heart was covered in fibrosis what causes this and why put a terminally ill person through this when they was dying
Mon, 24 Nov 2014
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Heart attack can happen to terminally ill patients as the immunity is down for these kind of patient leading to infection in blood and multi organ failure leading to sepsis and the pumping action of the heart is effected.
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What Causes Massive Heart Attacks In Terminally Ill By Cancer?

Hi Heart attack can happen to terminally ill patients as the immunity is down for these kind of patient leading to infection in blood and multi organ failure leading to sepsis and the pumping action of the heart is effected. Regards Dr de