Dr. Jean Mays says you will go from feeling fine to suddenly feeling short of breath and having heaviness in your chest that comes and goes.
Some people feel as though they have indigestion.
Discomfort may radiate to your arm, up to your jaw or even to your back. A new treatment can help buy doctors some time in helping patients by chilling a saline solution. The solution is then pumped through a catheter into the body s major vein where it chills the blood. Dr. Warren Sherman says the body temperature then drops to 91 degrees, slowing metabolism and making it so the heart does not have to work as hard. This treatment gives doctors time to clear the blocked arteries and help save the heart before the muscle is weakened.