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RECOVERING. EARL SCRUGGS, 72, bluegrass banjo master; from a bypass operation; in Nashville, Tennessee...
...recent heart attack and death from heart disease by 24 percent in post-heart attack patients with average cholesterol levels, according to the study which was printed in last week's New England Journal of Medicine. In addition, there were similar reductions in the need for coronary artery bypass surgery and coronary angioplasty...
...These results are particularly compelling because patients enrolled in CARE already were benefiting from optimal post-heart attack treatments such as aspirin, beta blockers, ACE inhibitors, bypass surgery or balloon angioplasty," Pfeffer said...
With any luck, advisers to Russian President Boris Yeltsin stoically insist, the political paralysis that has gripped Russia since his re-election last July will be over by Christmas: Yeltsin will be back at work after a successful heart-bypass operation, and the country will resume its shamble toward what ordinary Russians wistfully call political "normality." Few believe this will happen, though. Most people, including presidential intimates and senior government officials, suspect that Yeltsin is seriously ill, will require much more than a bypass and may not survive. Last week his prospective surgeon, Renat Akchurin, revealed in press interviews that...
...imminent. In fact, there are signs it may not happen until October, rather than late September, as originally announced. The main reason seems to be the fear, voiced in the medical world and circles close to the Kremlin, that Yeltsin's health problems may be more serious. "A heart bypass is pretty conventional surgery," says an experienced Moscow surgeon. But, he adds, "the President seems to show symptoms of general atherosclerosis." This makes the bypass a much more delicate undertaking...