New research helping identify heart attack patients at high risk for complications 

INDIANAPOLIS -- New research is paving the way to help heart attack patients.

It all comes from a new multicenter study led by the Indiana University School of Medicine.

Many doctors are now calling this research a game-changer in the medical field. It focuses on a simple diagnostic tool to identify people at the highest risk for complications after a heart attack.

“Not all heart attacks are the same,” said Dr. Rohan Dharmakumar, the vice chair of research for the Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences at IU School of Medicine. "When we open up the coronary arteries in patients that are having a heart attack, some patients can actually bleed after inside the muscle which we call a hemorrhagic (myocardial) infarction (MI).”

In turn, those are the patients who are much more likely