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I was diagnosed in May this year with A Fib. For those of you who do not know, that is a sometimes rapid and irregular heart beat.I'm on a beta blocker,and a blood thinner also to control my blood pressure.If you have it you know the symptoms. Lately I've been getting dizzy and a prickly feeling on my upper back if I get up too fast. (Yeah I know the joke line...get up slowly)My Doctor has just seen appropriate to up my meds slightly. Most of the time I feel great. But I've been having days like crap. I sometimes...
Published on Thursday 9th of February 2012 02:32:00 AM
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Former Vice President Dick Cheney is rebounding from five weeks in the hospital this summer, and plans about 10 stops on the speaking circuit in coming months – along with some hunting trips as well, according to friends. Cheney spent much of the summer at Inova Fairfax Heart and Vascular Institute, a stay that was prolonged by a bout of pneumonia. He had a left ventricular assist device implanted, a pump that is used in dire cases, and that can be used as a bridge to a heart transplant. The former vice president hasn’t decided whether to seek a heart...
Published on Thursday 9th of February 2012 02:32:00 AM
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Most Americans are familiar with the electrocardiogram (ECG) - the instrument that records the electrical activity of the cardiac muscle as it generates the stages of the cardiac cycle. Deviations from the normal ECG provide a noninvasive tool for the diagnosis of cardiac abnormalities, and an ECG recorded during a physical stress test is widely used for the diagnosis of ischemic heart disease(IHD). The leading cause of death in the developed world, IHD is the term given to heart problems caused by narrowed heart arteries. When arteries are narrowed, less blood and oxygen reaches the heart muscle. This is also...
Published on Thursday 9th of February 2012 02:32:00 AM
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By Gene J. Koprowski UPI Science News Published 1/7/2005 10:58 AM CHICAGO, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- Physicians now have a technological solution to an all too common scenario -- a cardiac patient forgets to take his heart medication and winds up in the emergency room. Doctors are sending text-message reminders to patients, via mobile phones and personal digital assistants, telling them it's time to take their prescribed angiotensin converting enzyme or ACE inhibitor, like Prinivil, or other medications."One of our major thrusts is going to be moving healthcare related applications to technologies that are more familiar to the patients," said...
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When Bill Clinton underwent quadruple coronary-bypass surgery on Labor Day, the former president, like most Americans who have similar operations, spent time hooked up to a heart-lung machine while surgeons rerouted blood vessels to his heart. With luck and his relative youth and health going for him, Clinton, 58, hopefully will rebound in both heart and mind from the surgery, in which doctors replace clogged arteries to the heart with veins and arteries taken from elsewhere in his body. But many people who go through the procedure -- as 305,000 Americans did in 2001, the latest year for which figures...
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<p>The future of heart disease treatment is coming into focus with a growing emphasis on potent drug cocktails that fight obesity, help smokers quit, ease inflammation and restore a healthy blood-cholesterol balance.</p><p>The shift may arrive in time for many aging baby boomers, doctors say, with several promising drugs undergoing pivotal tests in humans.</p>
Published on Thursday 9th of February 2012 02:32:00 AM
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