Common heart attack symptoms include:
Pressure, a feeling of fullness or a squeezing pain in the center of your chest that lasts for more than a few minutes
Pain extending beyond your chest to your shoulder, arm, back, or even to your teeth and jaw
Increasing episodes of chest pain
Prolonged pain in the upper abdomen
Shortness of breath
Sweating
Impending sense of doom
Fainting
Nausea and vomiting
Increasing episodes of chest pain Prolonged pain in the upper abdomen
Shortness of breath
Sweating
Impending sense of doom
Fainting
Nausea and vomiting
I have had an "Impending sense of doom" since McCain was selected as the GOP nominee.
With a heart attack, cause by decreased blood flow to the heart, most often from an arterial blockage, there are symptoms and with a heart attack, the heart does not always go into full arrest and the patient sometimes remains conscious throughout a heart attack.
But with a sudden cardiac arrest, which is an electrical disturbance in the heart, an arrhythmia that causes the heart to suddenly stop beating, sometimes the only symptom is sudden death.
A heart attack and the underlying coronary artery disease that can cause a sudden cardiac arrest (and sometimes without any of the typical heart attack symptoms) but not all sudden cardiac arrests are the result of a heart attack or coronary artery disease.
An enlarged heart, leaking heart valves, a congenital heart condition or electrical problems in the heart Brugada's syndrome and long QT syndrome can all lead to sudden cardiac arrest. Sometimes these underlying conditions that can result in sudden cardiac arrest have few if any symptoms and can go undiagnosed for years until the person suffers an arrest and sadly few survive it unless there it happens a defibrillator and someone trained to use one nearby and as soon as the arrest happens.
Sudden cardiac arrest is what is seen sometimes in seemingly young health people, even high school athletes who are playing a game basketball and suddenly collapse in full cardiac arrest in the middle of the game. They are fine one minute and very dead the next.
My understanding is that Andrew Breitbart had coronary artery disease that had been diagnosed within the last year and he had been under a doctor’s care for the condition so it’s not out of the question or nothing particularly unusual that he might have suffered a sudden cardiac arrest.
The witness saying he “said he collapsed like a “sack of bricks” and “had guttural sound from the bowels of his stomach that didn’t sound good” would be very consistent with a sudden cardiac arrest. As far as the “big thick band of blanched white skin around the top of Breitbart’s forehead”, first of all, eye witness reports are sometimes unreliable but then a sudden stoppage of blood flow can cause both redness and paleness at the same time. WND has a history of sensationalizing and promoting conspiracies......
WND = Whirled Nuts (and conspiracy theories) Dail