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Furthermore, it wasn't atherosclerosis or a heart attack that sent Cheney to the hospital. Rather, scar tissue had formed around the wire-mesh stent that was implanted last November to open a blocked coronary artery. This had led to a renarrowing, or restenosis, of the vessel. (Restenosis occurs in 20% of such cases.) Although one study suggests that "burnout" can trigger restenosis, the evidence is hardly conclusive and in any case doesn't apply to Cheney, who obviously relishes his job. "If you have a job you love, then you're lucky," says Dr. Alan Wasserman, chief of medicine...
Cheney's doctors last week performed a repeat angioplasty to reopen his scarred-up coronary artery. They now estimate the chances of another restenosis within the next six months to be about 40%. Should that occur, they will probably turn to one of the radiation treatments approved by the Food and Drug Administration last year that melts away the internal scar. "This field is changing so rapidly," Wasserman says. "We didn't have stents a few years ago. We didn't have radiation therapy a few months ago." So what is Cheney's prognosis? "We can't predict the future...
While walking down Oxford St. near Garfield St. at approximately 10:30 p.m., the victim--a resident of Cambridge-- was approached by a 30-year old white male, about 5'11" and 160 pounds, with fair skin, light blue eyes and a light-colored scar around his mouth. The suspect was also wearing a hat, a scarf and a green jacket...
While walking down Oxford St. near Garfield St. at approximately 10:30 p.m., the victim was approached by a 30-year old white male, about 5'11" and 160 pounds, with fair skin, light blue eyes and a light-colored scar around his mouth...
Doctors found that scar tissue had developed around the artery support structure, known as a stent, used in the November angioplasty, and blockage in the artery had returned to 90 percent of its original severity...