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The first studies carried out in humans that aim to lessen the muscle damage of a heart attack has yielded very favorable results. Very exciting! I think it is important for people to remember that ones heart suffers damage at 2 different points after a cardiac event- one when the ischemia from a blockage occurs […]
So, I have a sticky kind of topic to share with you today…
A large study has found that black Medicare patients are less likely than white patients to receive blood vessel opening procedures such as angioplasty following a heart attack, whether they are admitted to hospitals that provide or do not provide these procedures, but […]
The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey study found a wireless system that enables on-call cardiologists to view full ECGs on “smart” phones can cut in half the time it takes to begin the treatment of heart attack with catheter-based techniques such as angioplasty and stenting.
The door to intervention time of patients having […]
If discontinuing anti-clotting medication after receiving a coated stent is a bad idea, wouldn’t it be better to get a stent that dissolves after a certain period of time? Some good reasons to get an absorbable stent:
You’d avoid having a foreign body inside your heart
The absorbable stent is more flexible and conforms to […]
An article in the New York Times discusses the higher than average rate of angioplasties in Elyria, Ohio which is mainly attributed to cardiologists at the local hospital.
Whether the preference for angioplasty is good for the patients of Elyria is open to medical debate. The cardiology group’s leader says the high rate of angioplasties is […]
This past week, FatBlogger told us about his mother who is back home after havin two stents* put in. He wrote a great post last week about heart disease in women.
Having a heart attack was a shock for my mom, as well as the rest of the family. To look at her, and her […]
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