New York, Jan. 25 – For years, heart doctors have puzzled over why some patients without any heart symptoms suddenly suffer a massive heart attack and die while others with clearly diseased arteries live on. Now doctors are beginning to understand why this is, and a study being conducted at Montefiore Medical Center could show how antibiotics can change that situation.
HEART ATTACK PATIENT Bill Farney said, “It felt like somebody was ripping my chest open. It was so severe. I had the cold sweats, I was completely drenched, my clothes were wet.”
It was so bad that Farney woke up from a deep sleep, leaving him just enough time to call 911. An ambulance got there in minutes, which was very lucky for him.
“My heart stopped and actually, you can say I was dead for a minute,” he said.
Farney had never had chest pains or any other signs of heart disease. In fact, his doctor said that even if they had looked at his coronary arteries, they probably wouldn’t have seen anything all that alarming.
According to Dr. David Brown of Montefiore Medical Center, “Before his acute event, we would have seen a mild plaque that was about 50 percent narrow. That would have never manifested itself as a positive stress test or as symptoms of angina.”
So what is it that makes some coronary artery blockages lethal? The emerging theory is that if cholesterol-laden plaques build up slowly in an artery, you can block off virtually the entire artery because the heart has time to form new blood vessels to feed the heart muscle.
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HEART ATTACK PATIENT Bill Farney said, “It felt like somebody was ripping my chest open. It was so severe. I had the cold sweats, I was completely drenched, my clothes were wet.”
It was so bad that Farney woke up from a deep sleep, leaving him just enough time to call 911. An ambulance got there in minutes, which was very lucky for him.
“My heart stopped and actually, you can say I was dead for a minute,” he said.
Farney had never had chest pains or any other signs of heart disease. In fact, his doctor said that even if they had looked at his coronary arteries, they probably wouldn’t have seen anything all that alarming.
According to Dr. David Brown of Montefiore Medical Center, “Before his acute event, we would have seen a mild plaque that was about 50 percent narrow. That would have never manifested itself as a positive stress test or as symptoms of angina.”
So what is it that makes some coronary artery blockages lethal? The emerging theory is that if cholesterol-laden plaques build up slowly in an artery, you can block off virtually the entire artery because the heart has time to form new blood vessels to feed the heart muscle.
Want to learn MORE?
http://www.msnbc.com/local/WNBC/1208876.asp
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"I'd like an order of fries, a quarter pounder with cheese, I love the light in your eyes, would you go out with me please? I am in love with a McDonald's Girl, she has a smile of innocence so tender and warm, she is an angel in a polyester uniform."