Word: angiograms
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...really think it probably saved my life," Bill Clinton told Larry King, speaking not about the bypass operation he had last week but about the test--an angiogram--that first showed that the arteries feeding blood to his heart were dangerously blocked. "If people have a family history there, and high cholesterol and high blood pressure," Clinton said, "they ought to consider the angiogram...
...trouble usually begins when a fatty deposit or plaque, which has taken decades to build up on the inside of a coronary artery, becomes unstable and bursts, triggering a clot that blocks a blood vessel. Doctors can see these plaques during a fairly invasive procedure called an angiogram, in which a catheter is threaded through an artery in the groin or leg up to the arteries of the heart and a dye is then released to make any blockages easier to spot...
...watching a basketball game at home. I had this stinging pain in my arm and a cold sweat. I saw my doctor the next day. He said, "Angiogram immediately." He and the surgeon and the cardiologist all look at it and say, "It's a mess. You've got six months to live if you don't do anything, meaning surgery. Let's go." I said, "What are the odds?" He said, "Very good--about 8 or 9 to 1." I said, "O.K., I like the odds...