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...TMR a surgeon makes a small incision in the left side of the chest and exposes the left ventricle, the chamber that forces oxygenated blood into the arteries. While the heart pauses between beats and fills with blood, a laser is used to shoot a minuscule hole through the muscle. (Zapping the heart in synch minimizes potential fibrillation by keeping time with the heartbeats.) The 30 to 45 wounds on the outside of the heart close up almost instantly, with help from pressure by the surgeon's finger. But the channels created inside the muscle remain open--at least...
...more. Gene therapy has no fixed price yet, although it is expected to cost significantly less than bypass surgery. There's no argument that laser therapy provides short-term relief for severe angina. Some studies suggest longer-term benefits. One found that almost three years after tmr, patients who had the worst form of angina (class IV, the kind that wakes you up at night) could maintain on average class I or II (pain with exertion only...
...negotiation in my case now revolves around the question of whether I have the time to wait for the doctors to learn more about gene therapy and TMR--the time, put bluntly, to let them experiment on other patients, not me. Then, too, I could die waiting. I'm thinking. I'm thinking...
...tMR. Fred. W. Whitaker, of Whitaker & Co., Tailors, 43 Conduit street, London, W., has arrived at Young's Hotel, Boston, with special samples for winter. He will be there until October 13. Appointments by letter. Hotel hours 8 till...
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