Heart Attack (A Cleveland Clinic Guide) (Cleveland Clinic Guides)

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There is no other medical center more qualified to write a book on this subject.The Cleveland Clinic Heart Center has been selected as the best Heart Center in America, according to U.S. News & World Report’s annual survey for the past 11 years. Our doctors are leaders in cardiology, cardiac surgery, cardiothoracic anesthesia, and research into the heart and its diseases. No heart program has more experience, more knowledge and better access to technology. As medical pioneers, The Clinic developed cardiac angiography and the coronary artery bypass.

One great lesson is that heart disease is a tremendously frustrating condition. It progresses silently and makes its presence known—if at all—only well after it is established in the heart’s arteries. When there are symptoms—significant chest pain, for instance, or sensations of indigestion—they aren’t always recognized or acknowledged as being associated with heart disease or heart problems. Worse, sometimes the first sign of heart disease is a heart attack, and a lethal one.

This Cleveland Clinic Guide provides what anyone at risk of a heart attack needs most: real substantive information from a source that is trusted by people all over the world. Told through case histories, and fully illustrated, this Guide was written by specialists who understand what the patients are going through and know that with more information, patients will understand they are not alone.