can a fall on slippery a floor causes heart attack or stroke ?

Question

Has vivelle (estradiol) dot patch ever caused heart attacks or strokes?

Answer 1

Stroke: Heart attack and stroke can make you fall. If you hit your head in a fall, you can have stroke.....

Answer 2

Any, technically: Both heart attacks and strokes can occur at any age, from many different causes. Both involve disrupting the blood flow to the heart muscle and brain tissue, which can be caused by things like blood clots, medications/drugs, spasm of blood vessels or even air in the bloodstream.

Answer 3

Any age: It all depends on your risk factors and other medical history as well as family history in some cases. Generally, though, it starts in the 30s - at least currently.

Answer 4

Any age: Though considered rare, coronary occlusion is a complication of kawasaki disease in children and strokes do occur in infants or toddlers that have vascular malformations. Premi infants also may have intra-cranial hemorrhages during the intensive efforts to keep them alive.The adult cases are more frequent & expected, but this completes the spectrum.

Answer 5

Arteriosclerosis: Plaque in carotid may lead to microembolic stroke, plaque in coronary may lead to myocardial infarct.

Answer 6

Blood Clots: Both a heart attack and a stroke is caused by a blood clot that gets lodged in a vessel in the heart and brain respectively. The only exception to this is that bleeding in the brain is also termed "stroke, " but it is a "hemorrhagic stroke" rather than an "embolic stroke, " which is from blood clots.

Answer 7

Yes: Any drug that radically raises blood pressure - Cocaine is the classic example - but others like meth will also do it, can lead to heart attack and stroke. Some drugs - like Cocaine - can also make the circulation spastic which can which can also damage downstream organs.

Answer 8

Yes: Depends the drug even over the counter medication can do it. Careful!

Answer 9

Depends: Stokes and heart attacks can vary quite a bit in severity which may mean a lot in predicting what will happen. The long term treatments can be very similar. The short term treatments maybe different. The doctors taking care of the patient will have the best understanding of the priorities in treatment and can better describe what you can expect.

Answer 10

Treat each one: The history of a stroke may preclude the use of thrombolytics, but should not interfere with medical therapy or stent placement.

Answer 11

Chest and brain: Heart attack is damage to heart stroke is damage to brain some heart attack patients may be from emboli, or have low cardiac output and also damage brain with hypoxia both have some common risk! smoking obesity high blood pressure diabetes hyperlipemia prevention is best.

Answer 12

Different: A heart attack is heart damage due to lack of blood to a portion of the heart. A stroke is brain damage because of lack blood flow to a part of the brain.

Answer 13

Heart attack: A stroke is to the brain what a heart attack is to the heart. You could call a stroke a brain attack. They don't clinically look alike because losing brain tissue causes neurologic symptoms and heart attack causes heart symptoms like pain and shortness of breath.

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