{"id":13808,"date":"2015-05-28T17:41:07","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T12:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cardiophile.com\/?p=13808"},"modified":"2022-12-20T06:47:21","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T01:17:21","slug":"how-can-you-find-out-whether-a-person-had-a-heart-attack-earlier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/general\/how-can-you-find-out-whether-a-person-had-a-heart-attack-earlier\/","title":{"rendered":"How can you find out whether a person had a heart attack earlier?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eudtEj4W9Eg\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #008000;\">How can you find out whether a person had a heart attack earlier?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>ECG can detect an old heart attack even years later. Old myocardial infarctions (technical term for old heart attack) will manifest as pathological Q waves in the ECG. Cardiac troponin test detects a recent myocardial infarction for about 2 weeks. CPK (Creatine Phosphokinase) can detect it for a few days.<\/p>\n<p>The CPK value peaks at about 24 hours after a myocardial infarction. Echocardiogram, the ultrasound study of heart, can also detect an old myocardial infarction for a long period. Nuclear imaging and MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) can also detect previous myocardial infarction. But if these tests are negative, it does not always exclude a previous heart attack, as the evidence may not persist long in mild attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can you find out whether a person had a heart attack earlier? ECG can detect an old heart attack even years later. Old myocardial infarctions (technical term for old heart attack) will manifest as pathological Q waves in the ECG. 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