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From what I remember from a family members heart attack ... the heart doesn't really heal.
Hence pace makers for a lifetime.
>The heart is unable to regenerate heart muscle after a heart attack and lost cardiac muscle is replaced by scar tissue.
https://www.uclahealth.org/heart/cardiac-repair-regeneration
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From what I remember from a family members heart attack ... the heart doesn't really heal.
Hence pace makers for a lifetime.
>The heart is unable to regenerate heart muscle after a heart attack and lost cardiac muscle is replaced by scar tissue.
https://www.uclahealth.org/heart/cardiac-repair-regeneration