Results from a new study contradict the prevailing notion that heart attacks run their course in less than a day and suggest that even delayed treatment can preserve heart tissue that otherwise would die.
Widely used guidelines for treating heart attacks recommend deploying procedures for clearing blocked heart arteries only if the patient can be treated within 12 hours of the attack’s onset (see “A Matter of Time,” in this week’s issue).
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