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19 unusual facts about Myocardial infarction


1983 Formula One season

Lotus would be without team founder Colin Chapman in 1983 after the legendary team boss' sudden death from a heart attack on 16 December 1982 at the age of 54.

American Flyers Airline

Reed Pigman died on April 22, 1966 of a heart attack at the controls of an Lockheed Electra (N183H) and the resulting crash killed more than 80 military transients that were being flown under a Department of Defense contract charter from an east coast location en route to Fort Ord, California with a service stop and crew change in Ardmore, Oklahoma.

Andrew Van Vranken Raymond

In January 1918 he visited Clifton Springs to better his health and on died in early April 1918, he died of a heart attack in Tyron (near Spartanburg, South Carolina) while visiting his son.

Chubby Oates

He died aged 63 from diabetic complications and a heart attack after giving a performance at a showbusiness luncheon.

El Jícaro, Veracruz

He died in the '70s, of a heart attack while visiting his longtime mistress Amada Amador.

Jelle Taeke de Boer

Jelle de Boer was never allowed to see his collection again and he died of a heart attack in 1970, 62 years of age.

Khalil al-Sakakini

Sari Sakakini's sudden death of a heart attack in 1953 at the age of 39 was a devastating blow.

New York, Westchester and Boston Railway

Bardo died of a heart attack in August 1937, before the full effect of his policies could be realized.

Nicolasa Dayrit

Doña Nicolasa became despondent and died of a heart attack on April 12, 1945, possibly due to her depression.

Norman Charles Roettger, Jr.

Roettger served on the court until he died in 2003 in Fort Lauderdale from a heart attack.

Porl King

On 11 September 2007, King suffered a heart attack in Leeds and was taken by ambulance to Leeds General Infirmary, where he survived and was put on an eight week recovery programme.

Ruby Holler

On Tiller and Florida's small trip while rafting down a river, their boat capsizes and Tiller suffers a heart attack. Luckily, Dallas, Sairy, and Z find them and Tiller is taken to a hospital where he recovers.

Tam Paton

In later years he suffered poor health including two heart attacks and a stroke.

The Adventure of the Deptford Horror

Several of her relatives have died in the past few years of heart attacks.

The Best Thing That Ever Could Have Happened

While fixing the shingle on Susan Mayer's house, he suffers a heart attack and suddenly dies.

The Thoroughbred Corp.

Prince Ahmed bin Salman died unexpectedly at age 43 of heart failure in Riyadh.

Three Points, California

Two years later, Anita had a heart attack and so the Felixes began leasing it to other operators.

Tim Willoughby

Having left Goldman Sachs in late 2007, Willoughby was due to start work at the firm of Citi Smith Barney on 10 January 2008, but died suddenly on 9 January 2008 after suffering a heart attack on board a flight from the United States to Singapore, returning home from a family holiday in New Mexico.

Watch Your Own Heart Attack

Watch Your Own Heart Attack is a two-minute public information film advertisement produced by the British Heart Foundation, starring Steven Berkoff, which illustrates how it feels to have a heart attack.


Alex Duthart

Duthart finished his career playing for British Caledonian Airways; it was while playing for this band that he suffered a heart attack while lined up to play in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City.

Baby Boy Warren

He suffered a fatal heart attack at his home on July 1, 1977, and was buried at Detroit Memorial Park Cemetery, Macomb County, Michigan.

Bussunda

Bussunda died of a heart attack in a hotel in the neighbourhood of Parsdorf in Vaterstetten, a suburb of Munich, Germany, where some members of Casseta & Planeta accompanied the Brazilian national team at the World Cup, for a series of TV shows.

Charles Royds

He suffered a heart attack while attending a rehearsal of the Strauss Ball at the Savoy Hotel and was rushed to Charing Cross Hospital, but was pronounced dead on arrival.

Christopher Holland-Martin

While on a visit to Southern Rhodesia in January 1960, he suffered a heart attack and was confined to bed at Government House; he was returned to Britain but died at his home in Colwall, Herefordshire in April.

Contraction band necrosis

It is a characteristic histologic finding of a recent myocardial infarction (heart attack) that was partially reperfused.

Denial

The American Heart Association cites denial as a principal reason that treatment of a heart attack is delayed.

Desert Wine

Desert Wine died of a heart attack at age twenty-three on October 15, 2003 at St. Hilaire Farm near Yakima, Washington where he had stood at stud since 2000.

Fred Leamon

In later life he worked as a security guard for the BBC, and it was while working in this capacity that he suffered a heart attack at St Paul's Cathedral during the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana.

John Betts

Betts, who previously had a quadruple heart bypass in 1994, was hospitalized in early 2005 with what was thought to be a minor heart attack forcing the government to delay several votes.

John Marshall Butler

At age 80, he died from a heart attack in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, as he and his wife were returning from a vacation on St. Simons Island in Georgia.

Johnny Hodges

Hodges' last performances were at the Imperial Room in Toronto, less than a week before his May 11, 1970 death from a heart attack, suffered during a visit to the office of a dental surgeon.

K. Sivalingam

On April 4, 2007, en route a leisure trip to southern India with his daughter and son-in-law, Sivalingam died from a heart attack in Chennai, India, upon arrival at the Chennai International Airport from Kuala Lumpur.

Larry Knechtel

Knechtel died on August 20, 2009, in Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital, Washington, at the age of 69 of an apparent heart attack.

Leonard Ingrams

He died after a heart attack at the age of 63 in 2005, while driving home from a performance of Verdi's Otello at Glyndebourne.

Louis Calhern

Calhern died of a sudden heart attack in Nara, Japan, while filming The Teahouse of the August Moon.

Mangal Raj Joshi

Dr. Joshi died in Kathmandu on 2 March 2005 from a combination of kidney problems and a heart attack, according to his son, Dr. Badri Raj Joshi, B.A., M.S.C. (Predictive Astrology), Ph.D., PGA.

Mariana Levy

It is known for sure that she suffered a heart attack while stopped at a red light in the Mexico City neighborhood of Lomas de Chapultepec.

Maurice Colbourne

He is probably best remembered as Tom Howard, in the BBC Television serial, Howards' Way, which he played from 1985–89, until he died suddenly aged 49 from a heart attack while renovating a holiday home in Dinan, Brittany, France.

Meyer Friedman

Beginning in the 1970s, Friedman collaborated with Stanford University psychologist Carl E. Thoresen and others in the Recurrent Coronary Prevention Project, which followed 1013 heart attack survivors for 4.5 years to determine effects from altering their coronary-prone (type A) behavior patterns.

Mob Research

Raven died of an apparent heart attack in his sleep on October 20, 2007 while recording with Treponem Pal in Geneva, Switzerland.

Paul Dudley White

Appointed as President Dwight D. Eisenhower's physician following his heart attack in 1955, White was a staunch advocate of exercise, diet, and weight control in the prevention of heart disease.

Peter Lei

Appointed Bishop of Hong Kong on December 21, 1973, shortly after his installation on April 22, 1974, he died on July 23, 1974 of sudden heart attack.

Polycap

Polycap is a specific five-in-one fixed dose combination polypill created by Cadila Pharmaceuticals Limited of Ahmedabad, India that combines moderate levels of five different medications in a single, one-a-day pill aimed at reducing/preventing heart attacks and strokes.

Prognosis

Other medical areas where prognostic indicators are used is in Drug-Induced Liver Injury (DILI) (Hy's law) and use of an exercise stress test as a prognostic indicator after myocardial infarction.

Rick Martin

Rick Martin died on March 13, 2011, in Clarence, New York, from a heart attack while driving, a complication of hypertensive arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease.

Robarts Research Institute

The institute was founded in 1986, under the guidance of neurologist Dr. Henry Barnett, most famous for his work with Aspirin as a preventive therapy for heart attack and stroke.

Sammy Meston

He turned out occasionally for Newport (Isle of Wight), but took up employment as a "bookie's runner" before he died of a heart attack in October 1953 aged 51.

Steve Ihnat

At the age of thirty-seven, he suffered a heart attack while visiting the Cannes Film Festival in France, where he was promoting his "Do Not Throw Cushions in the Ring."

Tony Fall

Fall died after a heart attack on 1 December 2007 while a member of the organisation team of the East African Safari Classic Rally in his hotel room in Tanzania, leaving his wife Pat and two sons from a previous marriage.

William S. Stevens

A resident of Narberth, Pennsylvania, Stevens died at age 60 on December 8, 2008 of a heart attack while working in Anchorage, Alaska.