Surgery May Outdo Drugs For Some Elderly Heart Attack Patients In elderly heart-attack victims, quick surgery to open blocked heart arteries may be more effective than blood-clot-dissolving drugs; but many older patients receive neither treatment, according drugs...
Laser Heart Surgery Improves Chest Pain Creating tiny tunnels into the walls of the heart using lasers, a surgery called transmyocardial revascularization, improves the symptoms of patients with severe chest pain (angina)...
Heart Attack Affects Blood Flow To All Of Heart For over two decades, the treatment of heart attacks has focused on restoring the impaired blood flow to the part of the heart affected by blockage of a coronary artery...
Laser Cited In Relieving Certain Heart Pain Arthur Toelken spelled relief: L-A-S-E-R. With two bypass surgeries and an angioplasty already behind him, the 65-year-old still was suffering from crippling chest pain several times every day...
Medicare To Study Noted Diet`s Effect On Heart Disease Medicare will pay for up to 1,800 elderly Americans with severe heart disease to try Dr. Dean Ornish`s famous but radical ultra low-fat diet, to see if it could be an alternative to heart surgery...
Radiation Therapy Keeps Arteries Unclogged Each year in the United States, about a million people undergo a procedure called angioplasty, in which plaque is cleared from clogged coronary arteries using a balloon-like device...
Combining heart attack treatments may benefit patients Going against conventional wisdom, a research team reports that combining two widely used treatments for heart attack may be the best course of action for some patients...
