[DeTomaso] Larry Stock on the mend "Cardiac Advice"

Paul Timko thedrol at pobox.com
Mon Nov 19 22:28:26 EST 2007


Man that first paragraph was a doozee, almost as bad as legal-eze.

Paul
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clay willmott wrote:
> Mike, glad he is okay.
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> Thats either the Left Main or Left Anterior Descending artery (both are nick named "widow makers").  He is very lucky he only had flow related demand issues (ischemia) manifesting as dyspnea and went to see the doctor before an myocardial infarction happened.  The collaterals develop very slowly and are usually quite small to bypass native blockages and a small plaque rupture would have occluded the entire flow to the LV wall which in essence is your entire ejection fraction.
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> The *good news* is with no infarct and re-vascularization left ventricular function will likely normalize (hibernating myocardium) and he will be cured and have normal cardiac life expectancy and be possibly as fit as his kids after cardiac rehabilitation.
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> Hope he does well and he did the right thing to go in.  Chest pain equivalents include the following (especially in Females):
> -Dyspnea (short of breath)-Ischemic heart muscle does not relax properly and and backs up blood/fluid into lungs causing pulmonary edema
> -Nausea/Vomiting
> -Arm/Shoulder "referred pain" from small autonomic nerve fibers
> -Diaphoresis
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> And of course the classic chest pain is tightness, substernal with any of the above.  If that happens do NOT drive but call an ambulance as most deaths are from acute cardiac rhythm disturbance from ischemia and the ambulance has a defibrillator.
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> If this is old news to most of you I apologize. However, if I had a dollar from every patient I saw that came in late to the ER with atypical chest pain I would get a GT5-S. Time equals muscle.
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> Clay (Critical Care MD)
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>> From: MikeLDrew at aol.com
>> Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:52:47 -0500
>> To: detomaso at realbig.com
>> Subject: [DeTomaso] Larry Stock on the mend
>>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I just got off the phone with Larry Stock, who is lying in a hospital bed 
>> with all sorts of tubes going into him.
>>
>> A few weeks ago, he found he was having trouble keeping up with his kids on a 
>> hiking trip, so he went to the doctor.   There he discovered that he had a 
>> 100% blockage of the main artery going to the heart (!), but luckily (and 
>> freakily), his body grew a natural bypass which went around the blockage, and 
>> enabled him to continue to live.   However, this bypass was substantially smaller 
>> than the blocked artery, so he still had problems.
>>
>> They gave him a double bypass operation on Friday, and he came through it 
>> just fine (other than a bout of post-operation hiccups which caused them to keep 
>> him a day or two longer than originally planned, as there was concern it might 
>> have interfered with the healing process).
>>
>> The funny thing is, he never stopped working.   He had the 1-800-DETOMASO 
>> phone forwarded to his cell phone, and has been answering customer calls and 
>> selling Pantera parts from his hospital bed, which drives the hospital staff nuts 
>> as you can imagine!
>>
>> He also has wireless internet access, so you can send him your get-well 
>> wishes to LarryS at panteraparts.com
>>
>> He hopes to be home in a few days, and back in the office next week....
>>
>> Mike
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