4 RiversideHealthcare.org Tom MacGilvray had been having chest pain off and on for a few weeks. But every time, the dull ache in the center of his chest passed after a few minutes of rest. “I thought, ‘Maybe I’m out of shape,’” MacGilvray, 74, of Bourbonnais, recalls thinking after one such episode. Then came the night of his grandchild’s birthday party. He went to bed after everyone left but was awakened an hour later by chest pain. He tried waiting it out, but this time his symptoms didn’t pass. “I said, ‘I’m not going to sit here and die in my living room in this easy chair,’” he says. “I told my wife, ‘I think we should have this checked out.’” Help for an ailing heart MacGilvray arrived at Riverside’s emergency department in the wee hours that Saturday morning. Tests showed he was having a heart attack. “We started him quickly on medical therapy,” says Riverside cardiologist Vikas Patel, MD. “We started thinning his blood to reduce the chance of any progression of his heart attack, and we controlled his symptoms.” After quadruple A healed heart and a grateful patient A NEW
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