“I felt like a shrinking balloon. Imagine filling a balloon with a hole. No matter how hard you blow into it, it doesn’t swell up but collapses and becomes limp. That was the sucked-out feeling I had as I could not breathe,” says 34-year-old Gurugram-based restaurant owner Varun Sharma, recalling the morning of his heart attack on April 1.
He was rushed to Medanta Hospital where a stent — a mesh-like tube inserted to keep arteries open and restore normal flow — was put in his heart. According to Dr Tarun Kumar, senior director, cardiology, Medanta-Moolchand Heart Centre, he had a major heart attack and was admitted after developing chest pain, restlessness, sweating and breathlessness. “An ECG showed he had an acute anterior wall myocardial infarction. He was managed with primary angioplasty.