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...open-heart surgery and buy a few more years of life. But reports on patients outfitted with the latest form of stents, which are coated with a drug that fights scar formation, show that the tiny pieces of metal scaffolding may increase the risk of potentially deadly blood clots in the heart. For now, doctors still believe that the benefits of the stents outweigh the small chance of clot formation, especially for patients who have just had a heart attack. Stents inserted in the first 12 hours after an attack (preferably within the first 90 minutes) had the best chance...
DIED. Gerry Studds, 69, former Democratic Representative from Massachusetts and the first openly gay member of Congress, whom the House censured in 1983 for having had an affair with a 17-year-old male page; of complications from a blood clot in his lung; in Boston. After surviving the sex scandal, Studds was elected to several more terms, and in 1996 Congress named a national marine sanctuary after him in recognition of his environmental work...
...Coumadin is the "blood thinner" we use when you've had a stroke, heart valve replacement or blood clot. It works by poisoning an enzyme in your liver that helps produce clotting factors. Its blood thinning (anticoagulating) effect comes on slowly but can quickly become (dangerously) greater than we want when you take different drugs or even different foods. The anticoagulation we want can easily overshoot - with dire consequences. It also can render ineffective or too effective, other drugs that are processed in the liver. Getting you on just the right dose of coumadin takes about a week, then...
...healthy. He was, in fact, a friend of my family. His hip surgery had gone very well, but here he was on the second post-op day, going - as we say in hospitals - down the tubes. We know this scenario: maybe unrecognized heart disease or maybe a blood clot to the lungs, but something was starting to kill my patient...
...fatty substance found in meat, poultry, eggs and dairy products--also tended to suffer from heart disease. Cholesterol by-products would form thick, tough deposits, called plaques, on the inner walls of arteries, stiffening them and then starving the heart of blood and creating choke points where a clot could stop the flow entirely...