Re: Artery reopens

Bob Cardone <cardone1!@!mindspring.com> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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(Dr. Andrew B. Chung said:

Horace Enea <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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About 2 years ago I had a quintuple bypass. About a month ago my
cardiologist had me do an acoustic stress test to see how I was doing.
He saw a spot, and so, I had an angiogram last Wed. to pin down the
problem. He found that four of the graphs were in perfect shape, but one
had closed. This happened, he said, because the original artery reopened
and is now clear and functioning perfectly. Is this common?

It is not rare.

Lowering cholesterol can do that :-)

(I wonder if Al Lohse is reading this ;-)

God Bless,

Andrew

What is an acoustic Stress test? It is like an Echo cardiogram while
you are exercising?

My guess is that it was a Stress Echocardiogram.

God Bless,

Andrew
--
Dr. Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD
Board-Certified Cardiologist
http://www.heartmdphd.com

Dr. Andrew B. Chung said:

Horace Enea <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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About 2 years ago I had a quintuple bypass. About a month ago my
cardiologist had me do an acoustic stress test to see how I was doing.
He saw a spot, and so, I had an angiogram last Wed. to pin down the
problem. He found that four of the graphs were in perfect shape, but one
had closed. This happened, he said, because the original artery reopened
and is now clear and functioning perfectly. Is this common?

It is not rare.

Lowering cholesterol can do that :-)

(I wonder if Al Lohse is reading this ;-)

God Bless,

Andrew

--
Dr. Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD
Board-Certified Cardiologist
http://www.heartmdphd.com

That is great.

Can you point me to any research on this matter, like people
with low cholesterol have more artery reopening than people
with high cholesterol?

This may be the breakthrough I am searching for.

Thanking you in advance,

A.L.

"Al. Lohse" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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Dr. Andrew B. Chung said:

Horace Enea <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

Quoted message said:

About 2 years ago I had a quintuple bypass. About a month ago my
cardiologist had me do an acoustic stress test to see how I was doing.
He saw a spot, and so, I had an angiogram last Wed. to pin down the
problem. He found that four of the graphs were in perfect shape, but one
had closed. This happened, he said, because the original artery reopened
and is now clear and functioning perfectly. Is this common?

It is not rare.

Lowering cholesterol can do that :-)

(I wonder if Al Lohse is reading this ;-)

God Bless,

Andrew

--
Dr. Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD
Board-Certified Cardiologist
http://www.heartmdphd.com

That is great.

Can you point me to any research on this matter, like people
with low cholesterol have more artery reopening than people
with high cholesterol?

Here's a review article about statins promoting "regression" of
atherosclerotic plaques.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12678574&dopt=Abstract

--
Dr. Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD
Board-Certified Cardiologist
http://www.heartmdphd.com