Word: oneness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...families for week-long sessions of parent-child group therapy. There are also monthly meetings of DeSisto parent groups in New York, Chicago, Detroit and Boston-nuclei for what DeSisto hopes will some day be a nationwide chain of therapeutic schools. Says he proudly: "I want to make this one a flagship...
Margaret, 32, a California housewife, seemed in perfect health. Then, while shopping one day, she suddenly fell to the floor dead, apparently of a heart attack. Harry's demise was less unexpected; the New York stockbroker, 49, had been suffering from angina pectoris, periodic attacks of severe chest pain, for several months before he died in his sleep. In both cases, doctors assumed the fatal attacks had been triggered by blood clots or atherosclerotic plaques clogging the pencil-thin arteries that supply oxygen-rich blood to heart muscle. But autopsies showed that the coronary arteries of both victims were...
...atherosclerotic disease was a major cause of cardiac attacks. Then, in 1970, doctors got "the first eyeball look at an episode of coronary spasm." At the University of California in Los Angeles, Cardiologist Albert Kattus and his team were doing a coronary bypass operation on a woman when suddenly one of the vessels began to constrict. As that happened, Kattus recalls, "we could feel that her coronary artery was tough like twine instead of soft and pliable...
Today spasm is one of the most active areas of medical research. Last week, in Anaheim, Calif., at a meeting of the American Heart Association, experts discussed the newest findings. Two of their more intriguing speculations...
...that their chest pains were due to spasm. Said he: "Atherosclerotic narrowing of the vessels is the bystander rather than the culprit of angina in such patients." But, experts agree, a spasm that might merely hinder the flow of blood in a healthy artery could completely block it in one already partly narrowed by fatty deposits...