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Cardiology trainee and clinical research fellow at the University of Oxford
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- Blood pressure-are we measuring it wrong?
- Stenting versus surgery-lessons from the heart to the brain
- Research into physical education activity in children: please sir can I have some more?
- Flu vaccines in the elderly-40 years of expensive policy with no evidence?
- How good are we at diagnosing serious infection in children?
- Why everyone should know about solar disinfection
- Another anti-obesity pill bites the dust
- Reflections on Haiti. Natural disasters, conflict, or disease-which is the biggest threat?
- 2010: call for reduced bias in clinical studies
- Trimming the fat- complicated devices will not solve a simple problem
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- Heart age calculator should come with a warning
- Understanding evidence-based medicine in 4 days. Lesson 1: Clinical significance is all about risk
- Steroids good in sore throat, Tamiflu not that good in swine flu
- Is organic food a waste of money?
- US Healthcare debate 2009. Should passion and anecdote ever outweigh evidence?
- Statins - are they worth it?
- Aspirin for all? No
- Why is Obama talking up Evidence-Based Medicine?
- Can the death of an icon impact our health?
- Do you know the right age to start cervical cancer screening?
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coronary artery bypass graft
4th March 2010 07:51pm
Stenting versus surgery-lessons from the heart to the brain
Atherosclerosis, or clogging up arteries, causes more deaths and more suffering than any other cause worldwide, most commonly in the form of heart attacks and strokes. Blocking of coronary arteries in the heart causes a spectrum of disease from angina to heart attacks, while blockages in cerebral arteries in the brain cause mini-strokes (transient ischaemic attacks or TIAs) and strokes. How best to prevent further strokes and heart attacks (secondary prevention) has occupied medical research for 40 years.
24th March 2009 10:03am
The benefits of an open heart
Myocardial infarction (MI) results from a blockage in one or more of the coronary arteries and represents the largest single cause of death worldwide [1]. Even before the introduction of coronary-artery bypass grafting (CABG) in 1968, the focus of treatment and research was opening the blocked artery. Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) was first used in 1977, and includes angioplasty, bare-metal stents and more recently, drug-eluting stents (DES). Heart surgeons and cardiologists have argued for the last 30 years over the best way to open up coronary arteries.
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