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A lot of people with stable heart condition may go through a very costly artery opening process if medicine will not work well for them; this is according to the newest study conducted recently. This process involves putting a little mesh stent, tube inside a clogged artery. Do you know that 75 percent of the said operations are not needed anymore according to a researcher who also happened to be a professor at the Stony Brook University Medical Center situated in New York?

Is it about money?

Money is just the one moving the force according to Brown. Everyone pays for stents, the hospital gets paid for it, the doctor and the stenting company too receives payment, he added. It is how the free for service environment has taken charge over the decision in making this branch of cardiology. Stenting will cost you around 9,000usd compared with a lifetime medication according to Brown. Even if this procedure is known as percutaneous coronary intervention, it lessens the cases of death & probable cases of heart attacks for someone who has had a heart attack. It’s affectivity in patients with stable heart disease hasn’t been determined.

According to stenting study conducted

There was a study published in February 27, there were 8 trials conducted involving around 7,000 patients. They were designated to a medical therapy or stenting plus medication. The trials started out in between year 1997 and 2005.   This kind of study is known as meta-analysis. The researchers look for patterns that might not have been the prime intent of the trials. At the follow up conducted for 4 years, there is no important alteration seen in the quality of life of the patients involved in the study.

More so, 649 patients died, while 322 got stents & 327 were given medicine alone, this is the data that the study discovered. Nonfatal heart attacks were experienced by 323 people with stents and 291 took medicines only. Those with stents, 774 new processes to open clogged heart arteries were discovered, while those under a medical therapy, 1049 of them also needed to go through the procedure for open blocked arteries. With the 4,000 people with chest pain or better known as angina was discovered, 29 % of those with stents had recurrent chest pain vs. the 33% of the people on medical therapy alone according to Brown.

Analysis on stents vs. medication

There is no definite data recorded yet that stenting the patient will be able to provide him/her with a stable heart disease, thus lessens the risk of having a heart attack and fatality later on in life. This is not to let people refuse the need to go through stenting, but only around 1/3 of the patients treated with medication will consider stenting over medication. People must not be blinded to agree in going through the process unless told by the doctor that they can reap benefits from it or it can boost their life quality.

Symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux

In January 24, kids with asthma who do not have heartburn and symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux do not get extra asthma control from acid lessening medicines. This is according to a new research. Taking this type of medicine if there is no issue may boost the risk of a child in developing a respiratory related infection according to a study. There is a firm association between acid reflux and asthma according to a study, these results in present asthma guidelines for evaluating the people with asthma for acid reflux.

Gastroesphageal reflux disease (GERD)

The rates of esophageal cancer have gushed because of the absence of awareness of the people about the case of the said issue and how it can be prohibited.  Esophagus is a muscular tube that is responsible in carrying the food and the liquid from the mouth going to the stomach. There were 6xs cases of esophageal cancer just in 2001 than the recorded data found in 1975.  The researchers took note of just 1 key that can help people in lessening the risk of having the said disease and this is to manage heartburn and acid reflux if they have it. These are also known as gastroesphageal reflux disease or GERD.

The doctor will conduct a series of exams to check for possible pericardial effusion, this will be done to know the probable causes & know the treatment. For some of the tests, the doctor may refer you to a cardiologist to better assess your condition.

There are available treatments for pericardial effusion, but most of them depend on the quantity of fluid that you have accumulated, the cause of the effusion and if it can cause less heart function, because of the pressure on the heart or cardiac tamponade.  Treating the underlying cause may be of help in correcting the issue.

Medicines to lessen the swelling

If there is no tamponade or if there is no adequate treatment of tamponade, the doctor may give you either aspirin, NSAIDs and Colcrys to cure the swelling regarding pericardium that might contribute to pericardial effusion. If your body will not respond to the medicine of if you have a recurring pericardial effusion after the treatment has been successful, then the doctor might prescribe a corticosteroid like prednisone.

Though there is no treatment for Marfan syndrome, the treatment mainly focuses in providing preventive measures to the complications of the said disease.  In the past, people who had Marfan syndrome seldom lived over 40. Just with proper care, close monitoring and fresh treatments, people with Marfan will be able to live longer and normal too.

In Chicago, there are reports that say an angiotensin receptor blocker is not better than the standard type of beta blockers for slowing down aortic root enlargement that usually leads to partition and death in Marfan syndrome according to a trial. The aortic root size standardized for the body surface area & adjusted for baseline can improve adequately with the treatment for both groups. The Z score slopes became negative for losartan and atenolol.

In a hospital in Kuwait, there is a pregnant 36 years old Filipina woman who was admitted in the hospital in her 9^th month with an acute blood pressure condition. She suffered from a cardiac arrest and she was declared clinically dead too. The doctors rushed to her to give birth to her child thru a C section, but without anesthesia, since the woman was assumed dead during those times. She delivered a healthy baby boy at 6.9lbs. The doctors attempted to revive her and they were surprised when she started to breath once again.

Sudden cardiac arrest

Having abnormality in the rhythm of the heart or better known as arrhythmia may result in sudden cardiac arrest. This problem has something to do with the electrical system of the heart. Compared to the muscles of the body that depends on the nerve connections to get the electrical stimulation that they need to be able to function well.

A heart attack & a cardiac arrest are both risky, but these are 2 different cardiac events. A heart attack may occur when there is just small amount of blood flowing to the heart, while in a cardiac arrest the heart fails to work normally and it just stops beating to the point that a person may actually die from it by losing consciousness first.