So how long should you wait after getting chest pain to call for help? It’s immediately. This directive comes from a recent ACC 2012 meeting in Istanbul, Turkey. “Time is heart muscle,” as the saying among cardiologists goes. Here I am, writing this article, but not having respected this directive with my own mother when ...
If you’ve been diagnosed with a small abdominal aortic aneurysm, your physician will apply a “watchful waiting” approach, which includes regular imaging of the condition to see if the diseased portion of the artery grows in size. The latest investigation (a meta-analysis) reveals that the smallest abdominal aortic aneurysms often do not seem to get ...
Lifeline Screening is a company that has been in business since 1993. While they are increasingly popular, and forever adding new services, many don’t know the necessity or reasoning behind getting the tests that they offer. I did some research for a family member and thought I would share it. Lifeline Screening offers so many ...
An endovascular repair of an abdominal aortic aneurysm isn’t as troubling to consider when compared to the more invasive, open surgical treatment. On the other hand, stented grafts can fail, and this procedure requires lifelong CT scans (radiation) for monitoring. A Johns Hopkins professor has determined that the four-year survival rate between both repair procedures ...
Perhaps you already know that stent graft repair of descending and abdominal aortic aneurysm is the repair procedure of choice for select patients. I didn’t understand, then, why stent graft repair was apparently impossible with an aneurysm of the ascending aorta. I thought maybe it had something to do with not being able to “feed” ...
“With regard to aortic dilatation in athletes, these kind of exercises (lifting weights) do in fact, over a long period of time, result in a compensatory dilatation of vessels, including the aorta,” says Dr. Moji Gashti, Chief, Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore, MD. When an athlete, particularly one ...
The videocamera, the Santa suit and even the cowbell are back. Rent has returned to Boston. The story of a group of starving artists, living in New York City, Rent tells the story of friends who are struggling to survive while not selling out in the end of the 1990s. Mark, the narrator, is an ...
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