David Pfeiffer

David Pfeiffer, of Commerce Township, had never spent a night in the hospital. Driving home from work one evening, Pfeiffer, then age 50, pulled over on I-696. Something was wrong. He called his wife.

"I had some chest pain," he recalls. "But mostly, I couldn't stop sweating, and I couldn't drive. My wife called 9-1-1."

Pfeiffer was rushed to Botsford Hospital's Emergency Center. Botsford staff immediately gave him an electrocardiogram (EKG). It confirmed his worst fear - he was having a life-threatening heart attack caused by blocked arteries. To restore blood flow to his heart, Botsford physicians performed emergency balloon angioplasty.

Pfeiffer then required two emergency stents to open the blockages causing the heart attack.

"Three months after my heart attack, I had a complete physical," Pfeiffer reports. "My own doctor said that he would've never guessed that I had a heart attack, if he hadn't already known it."

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