"survived a heart attack" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are referring to someone who has experienced a heart attack and recovered. For example, "After surviving a heart attack, John was determined to live a healthier lifestyle."
He survived a heart attack at 86.
He had survived a heart attack in 2005.
Schoenberg was represented by the String Trio, a work composed in 1946, just after he survived a heart attack.
These are therapies administered to patients who have suffered and survived a heart attack, people with chest pains indicative of blocked coronary arteries and patients with heart failure.
He survived a heart attack at 42, and even when wheelchair bound towards the end of his life was irrepressibly entertaining.
Instead, the focus has become how he survived a heart attack that nearly killed him in 2002 and how he is two wins short of following through on returning home to West Virginia to win a national championship.
From a public health perspective, the increasing burden of coronary heart disease on western society, its augmented risk with age, and increased survival rates (e.g. up to 20 million people survive a heart attack globally each year [ 22]), highlight a need to implicate factors which facilitate workforce participation.
People who survive a heart attack are at much higher risk of sudden cardiac death in the next 30 days, researchers have found.
America after September 11th was like a couch potato who survives a heart attack, vows to start a strict regimen of diet and exercise, and after a few weeks still finds himself camped out in the living room.
In Portland I met (and jammed with) Rick King, an engineer who was keeping an Excel spreadsheet tracking every hour of his practice, having returned to the guitar in his sixties after surviving a heart attack.
Since her last time on "The View," she told us, she has a new marriage and a new baby, and has lost fifty pounds after surviving a heart attack.
