Heart disease, what can be done?
Atherectomy -A nonsurgical technique for treating diseased arteries with a rotating device that cuts or shaves away material that is blocking or narrowing an artery.
EBCT (Electron Beam Computed Tomography.
I have tried to find out if some kind of diagnostic method and some kind of treatment could have helped me to avoid the heart attack in Jan23, 2006. It seems to me now that probably the EBT, mentioned above could have discovered the plaque in my arteries which caused them to be almost totally closed. I don't know if this equipment is available here in Norway. I have found the story of Bill Clinton's heart disease. Doctors wondered why the EBT was not made available to him 10 years earlier.
The Association for Eradication of Heart Attack wants to encourage widespread use of EBT in order to prevent death from heart attacks.
"Without an EBT heart scan to measure coronary calcium, neither you, your doctor, nor your insurance company,, know whether or not you're at your true risk for a heart attack," said SPRI member Dr. Matthew Budoff, director of the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center EBT Clinic." A normal stress test tells us that the patient doesn't have a critical blockage at that point in time, but it routinely misses clinically significant amounts of plaque in the arteries. "
"Former President Bill Clinton passed his stress test with flying colors, and then checked into the hospital for emergency quadruple bypass surgery."
Angiograms $5000 gold standard for checking arteries for blockages (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id
I have published comments on GE Health Blog fr
EBCT (Electron Beam Computed Tomography.
I have tried to find out if some kind of diagnostic method and some kind of treatment could have helped me to avoid the heart attack in Jan23, 2006. It seems to me now that probably the EBT, mentioned above could have discovered the plaque in my arteries which caused them to be almost totally closed. I don't know if this equipment is available here in Norway. I have found the story of Bill Clinton's heart disease. Doctors wondered why the EBT was not made available to him 10 years earlier.
The Association for Eradication of Heart Attack wants to encourage widespread use of EBT in order to prevent death from heart attacks.
"Without an EBT heart scan to measure coronary calcium, neither you, your doctor, nor your insurance company,, know whether or not you're at your true risk for a heart attack," said SPRI member Dr. Matthew Budoff, director of the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center EBT Clinic." A normal stress test tells us that the patient doesn't have a critical blockage at that point in time, but it routinely misses clinically significant amounts of plaque in the arteries. "
"Former President Bill Clinton passed his stress test with flying colors, and then checked into the hospital for emergency quadruple bypass surgery."
Angiograms $5000 gold standard for checking arteries for blockages (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id
I have published comments on GE Health Blog fr