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My 40 yrs husband felt pain in the shoulders that rapidly tightened around chest with sweat &breathin difficulty.drs said it's clot in artery.do what?
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Clot: It is important to determine if the clot is in the coronary artery causing ischemia/infarction or another artery. He needs to be hospitalized immediately if we are talking about the coronary artery. The treatment i to either place a stent or surgically bypass it. Less common these days is dissolving the clot with thrombolytics (clot busters). Other arteries are treated with surgery or medicatio.
Answered 12/29/2014
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Tight: I assume the heart has beeb thouroughly checked. Other possibilities w ould be asthma, esophageal spasms (from acid) or coronary artery spasms. It could also be muscular.
Answered 9/24/2016
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