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...seemed patently out of touch, including the now-infamous remark that no one could have foreseen the levee breaking. His inability to see any moral distinction between those who steal water and those who loot TV sets seemed odd-and at odds with local politicians like New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu. Then where was the call for sacrifice? While southern governors like Georgia Republican Sonny Perdue worried publicly about gas shortfalls as soon as this weekend and begged for conservation, Bush seemed to do so only as an afterthought...
...table slides the patient into the scanner as the X-ray tube circles the body...
...lesions or plaques that block the arteries then show up on an X-ray picture called an angiogram. And if you don't consider catheterization real surgery, you don't understand how invasive and delicate an operation it actually is. The process can take anywhere from four to six hours and carries a 1% risk of serious complications, including death, from wayward catheters that can tear the delicate artery walls--which is why doctors don't order it lightly. Yet 20% to 40% of patients who take the risk turn out not to have needed it: they show no significant...
...recently. The past 18 months have brought a wave of advances in cardiac imaging, leading many doctors to wonder whether it's time to change the way they diagnose and treat heart disease. Leading the way are improvements in CT (for computed tomography) scanning, which uses highly specialized X-ray machines to take multiple, finely layered pictures of the heart and surrounding blood vessels. Sophisticated computer programs sort the data to generate amazingly detailed, three-dimensional images like the ones that alerted Fackelmann's doctors to his hidden heart problem. Advances in other techniques like MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) have...
...arteries that feed the heart. Calcium can then build up in the vessels and stiffen them, laying the foundation for heart disease. Getting one's calcium score is as simple as getting a quick injection of a contrast agent in the arm and a zap from an ultrafast X ray, either by electron beam computed tomography (EBCT) or by multidetector CT. Studies show that in every age group people with higher calcium levels have a greater risk of heart attack than do people of the same age with lower scores...