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Time is short when a patient is having a heart attack. Accessing the heart through the femoral artery in one's leg is not always the best option. Our hospital can utilize the radial artery in the wrist to provide swift, lifesaving treament for
There are studies that have shown that estrogen replacement in women may actually increase the risk of heart disease and that is no longer recommended. It used to be that woman may take estrogen replacement for menopause thinking that it had a
Let's breakdown what exactly cholesterol results mean, when you have your blood work drawn, you always want to make your blood fasting at a minimum of 12 hours. With those lab results you will have goals according to the American Heart Associat
Osceola does have a very busy nuclear program where we stress tests including stress tests for people who can't walk. And we use a substance that has a small amount of radioactive activity in it to take pictures of the heart. So the substance g
ICD is a fancy kind of a pacemaker in other words it delegates a shock at a various set energy and if your heart what it does is an insurance policy really. The placement of an ICD is just similar to a pacemaker; the difference only being it's
What ablation is practically it can mean two things, exactly you burn the electrical circuit or you freeze the electrical circuit. I give my patients examples of soldering it's like when you solder to metal, you hold it together. So it's pretty
Robert Schiller is the first patient to receive Radial STEMI at CFCVI. He shares his expereince.
A heart attack is in some ways a complex situation in terms of the entire body. But the cause is very simple. The cause of a heart attack is a clot forming in a narrowing in one of the arteries to the heart and the clot obstructs the vessel and
The most important thing for blood pressure control especially if you do not want to take any medication is why you have high blood pressure. Is it because you are overweight, lack of exercise, eat a lot of salt which turns out to be the main r
For us in cardiology time is muscle so the time we lose by not diagnosing something is time that patient loses and its cells that die and that heart gets weakened by that loss of time and loss of cells. So it's important to realize that woman i
It used to be and I have been doing this for 30 years and it used to be that patients didn't take their medications because of side effects. I remember there were only 3 blood pressure medicines available and all 3 produced nasty side effects p
It is very important to know the difference between the signs and symptoms of a heart attack, chest pains and abdominal pains to make sure we are not either missing the symptoms for a gallbladder attack for a heart attack or a heart attack for
Lung Cancer in the United States kills more people than breast cancer, colon cancer and pancreatic cancer combined. It has a very poor survival characteristic and fortunately is linked to smoking in a large majority of the cases. / Here at Osce
CAD stands for Coronary Artery Disease and it's a process whereby the arteries that supply the heart get diseased. The commonest cause of CAD is a process called atherosclerosis which is a disposition of plaque cholesterol plaque at the corona
Most people don't realize how significant heart disease is among women. Most women fear cancer or breast cancer or other diagnosis like the number one cause of death. But heart disease is much more prevalent than people think in women. But much
Plaque that produces coronary artery disease, arises in the vessel in the artery, but it's related to certain risk factors. Factors like high cholesterol, diabetes, high blood pressure, smoking.
TEE (trans-esophageal echocardiogram) is very valuable when it comes to looking for clots in the heart, looking at the valves of the heart to make sure that they are not infected and don't have a condition called endocarditis. Looking for leaki
The is called aortic stenosis and because the aortic valve doesn't open properly the left ventricle the main chamber of the heart has to work harder to squeeze blood thru a smaller and smaller orifice. And eventually when the valve gets really
TEE (trans-esophageal echocardiogram) what we prefer to in the hospital as TEE is a process whereby we make a patient swallow a probe and the probe takes breathtaking pictures of the heart from the esophagus, from the food pipe the esophagus si
Lifestyle changes after a heart attack are vital. Adequately changing lifestyle can definitely prevent a second heart attack. The only factor that puts a person at risk for a heart attack is our family history that we cannot change. Everything
I have seen woman confusing anxiety with heart attack or angina but I have seen also with is pretty typical woman confusing acid reflux with heart disease and in fact they may be having a very significant coronary lesion after we do the cardia
A well-toned athlete can have a heart rate in his 50s and 60s and he is exercising, because of you---when you run when you exercise your heartbeat goes up to 120-150 because of---ataxia. / But if you do have a heart rate out of the blue that is
Most patients after an open heart surgery are in the ICU for one day, most patients are back up to the floor for 2-3 days most patients after standard open heart surgery are home by post op day 3 or 4. At home they are home taking care of thems
We all have natural pacemakers in our heart; the function of the natural pacemaker is to provide electrical impulses that are generated at different levels in the heart to keep the heart pumping from an electrical standpoint. There are various
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