Heart Failure Device
“Back in 94 I was laying down Christmas Eve and my heart started racing and when I got here my heart rate was 250 beats.” Ronald McClarin has a dangerous heart rhythm--which is why doctors put into him an ICD--an implantable cardioverter. It keeps his heart beating regularly…and shocks it when the rhythm has gone arhy.
But pacemakers and ICDs do fail from time to time.
There are more and more pacemakers and so called ICD’s—implantable cardioverter-defibillators used each year.
Still there is not a lot known about their reliability and how often they malfunction--something that could cause a very serious problem.
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Angina Treatment in Women
Ask anyone on the street and they will tell you.. There ARE many, many differences between the sexes.
“I think women are smarter.”...
“Men are stubborn.”...
“Women can have babies, men can’t.”...
“Women are quite unpredictable, aren’t they?”
Yes women are not the same as men, even in how they experience heart disease. But the incorrect perception that women aren’t nearly as susceptible to coronary disease as men is killing them, literally.
Dr. Nieca Goldberg is a specialist in women’s heart health. She says, “Last year a sure among physician was done that showed only one in five recognized heart disease as a leading health care issue in women. If women have symptoms of shortness of breath or unexplained fatigue or the pressure isn’t in the center of the chest but lower down, those need to be considered as significant heart symptoms and women need to be referred for appropriate testing.”
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REPLICATING HEART STEM CELLS
Tough Women Study
It’s an often talked about aspect of the battle of the sexes: which gender can handle pain better?
A new study shows women--at one time considered the weaker sex--are actually stronger.
But that may not be such a good thing, especially given the fact that still don’t understand that heart disease is the number one killer of woman over the age of sixty-five, and they ignore the warning signs of heart problems.
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HEART FAILURE CARE
Is your hospital one of the many which fall short in providing the correct care for heart failure, and are as a result putting patients at risk for dying unnecessarily? You’d think if you go to an accredited hospital, you would get a uniformly high standard of care, especially when it comes to heart failure treatment, one of the most common reasons for hospital admission. Further, this quality of care should extend from the time of admission to a careful hospital discharge summary.
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HEART CAT SCANS
Fast heart CAT scans have been a screening test in limbo. The exact role and place for this exam, which is becoming more widely available, hasn’t been well defined, until now.
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STATIN STUDY
64 SLICE CT SCANNER
BYPASS VS. STENT STUDY
Tonight we have some important health news that will touch many of us. Coronary artery disease is the most common cause of death in America. Doctors use two main methods of treating the condition: heart bypass surgery and coronary stents.
This study is important because it looks at the treatment of people with so called multi-vessel disease--where more than one heart artery is blocked. And the study shows, in most, if there’s more than one artery blocked, the way to go is with surgery.
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REPLICATING HEART STEM CELLS
57 year old Ted Barnes knew that his body was sounding an alarm, and guessed he was experiencing the symptoms of a heart attack.
“I was feeling a tingling in my fingertips and it was kind of an unusual feeling. Then I had this attack of sweating that I never had before, which left me feeling nauseous.”
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AHA—MINORITY DISPARITIES IN CARDIAC CARE
HEART PUMP
HEART JACKET
Pat Brough had been suffering for years with cardiomyopathy, a condition in which the heart muscle becomes inflamed and doesn’t work as well as it should.
“I often experienced severe shortness of breath. I would just find myself unable to get my breath. I would wake up in the middle of the night gasping like somebody just put a pillow over my head,” explains Pat.
Pat’s health began to deteriorate rapidly. She was one step away from needing a heart transplant when she made the decision to have the heart jacket procedure. “My family flew in from California to see me. I thought I must be dying, otherwise they wouldn’t all come see me.”
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BETTER CARDIAC SURGERY
The most advanced method used to perform open heart surgery means a quicker recovery time and less postoperative risks. However, very few doctors use the technique.
The term port access refers to a technique that allows doctors to put a patient on a heart lung machine, stop the heart, and protect it, all done through catheters placed in the groin and the neck. The problem is, in spite of the fact it’s safer and more effective, doctors don’t learn how to perform it, which means it’s widely underused.
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Heart Attack
One of the most common causes of death in the United States is heart disease. One of the most serious examples of this is a myocardial infarction of a heart attack. Those individual of risks are those with a family history heart disease, have high fat diet, a sedentary lifestyle and a lifestyle that is over stressful.
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