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

[Will Demelo]

I concur.

William Demelo II   BS, MBA, PHD, LSD, CET
(unemployed)


>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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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