2000 Articles
12/20/2000 -
Cardiomyopathy and Heart Failure
What causes it, how it is treated, and what to expect
12/12/2000 - Unstable angina -
"Dick Cheney Disease"
Our understanding of the diagnosis and treatment of this serious condition
has greatly improved in recent years.
12/05/2000 - How to survive a
heart attack - the first 24 hours
The doctor's actions are important, but the key is in what you do.
12/01/2000 - Ethicist-assisted
suicide
If they think it's such a good idea, let them do it.
11/28/2000 - Pericarditis
A review for patients
11/21/2000 - Atrial
fibrillation
A review for patients
11/18/2000 - HMOs drop the
ball after heart attacks
And fee-for-service isn't much better.
11/14/2000 - C-reactive
protein and fibrinogen - Newer risk factors for coronary artery disease
What good are they?
11/07/00 - Radiation therapy
for coronary artery disease
This recently-approved treatment is promising, but potentially hazardous. Is
it for you?
11/01/00 - Cholesterol and
triglycerides
Bad cholesterol, good cholesterol, and the Rodney Dangerfield of lipids (triglycerides)
10/24/00 - Laser heart surgery
- dead on the vine?
New data refutes the effectiveness of a promising new therapy. How
will the medical profession respond?
10/17/2000 - Syncope, Part 3 -
How syncope is treated
Now that your problem has been diagnosed, what kind of therapy can you
expect?
10/11/2000 - Does stress
really cause heart disease?
For years it has been “common knowledge” that people
who are under a lot of stress have an increased risk of heart disease.
But is this common knowledge correct?
10/04/2000 - Syncope, Part 2 -
When to fire your doctor
The appropriate evaluation of syncope is not that difficult. But if it
is not done right, there may be serious consequences.
09/27/2000 - Syncope, Part 1 -
First, let's make sure you don't die
While most of the time syncope is a benign
problem, sometimes it constitutes an important warning of impending sudden
death. Can your doctor tell the
difference?
09/20/2000 - Should calcium
blockers be avoided in hypertension?
A
recent analysis, suggesting that treating hypertension with calcium blockers
increases heart attacks and heart failure, has generated fireworks within the
medical community.
09/16/2000 - Aortic Stenosis
People can live quite normally for decades with aortic
stenosis – until it becomes severe. Once
the symptoms set in, however, those symptoms often progress rapidly, and are
relieved only by surgery or by death.
09/07/2000 - Beta blockers are good
for heart failure
Beta blockers significantly reduce mortality in patients with heart
failure. But many doctors, trained in the era when beta blockers were
considered dangerous in these patients, haven't yet gotten the message.
08/15/2000 - Ultrafast CT scans - godsend or scam?
We examine this question, learn some general truths about medical tests, and
along the way discover one of cardiology's Dirty Little Secrets.
07/31/00 - Mitral Valve
Prolapse (MVP)
Do you have MVP? Do you, really? Read about the latest developments
on this commonly diagnosed, and commonly misunderstood, condition.
07/26/00 -
Can cholesterol lowering really be as effective as
angioplasty? The AVERT study.
The cholesterol lowering vs. angioplasty debate continues
07/23/00 - Hormone Replacement Therapy and heart disease
Medical science fails to prove a benefit from HRT, leaving women and their
doctors in a quandary
