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Can you tell me how long after you've had a heart attack can doctors still diagnose that you had one?

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Heart attack: A heart attack can be diagnosed acutely but also long after the actual event by imaging the heart damage with echocardiography, ECG and several other tests.

Answered 6/10/2014

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