Heart attack

A heart attack was a condition affecting certain individuals of humanoid species.

In the 1840s, when a tenant farmer tried to flatten the tumulus on Lanyon Moor, he dropped dead of a heart attack. (AUDIO: The Spectre of Lanyon Moor)

The Seventh Doctor, who, being Gallifreyan, had a binary vascular system, once had a "one-sided" heart attack. (PROSE: So Vile a Sin)

Geraint Cooper suffered from a series of heart attacks. (TV: The New World, The Categories of Life)

Behind the scenes
Several Doctor Who contributors have suffered from heart attacks:
 * Patrick Troughton had three major heart attacks, in 1978, 1984, and 1987. He died from the last one.
 * Ian Marter died of a heart attack in 1986.
 * Jon Pertwee died of a heart attack in 1996.