My fiance is having quintuple bypass surgery Monday

[Guest guest]

I will admit I'm scared. Becuz of my not being well of health, I cant be

down there with him, but his sisters, nepew, neices, and mom are around.

 

I will admit that I'm a bit scared. He's only 32. Has heart probs tho in the

first place, so hopefully he comes out of surgery ok and is a bit better.

 

He'll be in hosp. for two weeks.

 

~Anna

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Why this urgency ? ?

Is he at high risk and why ?

 

because if not you may consider the following :

 

 

“Among 181 low-risk patients, the bypass group had a much higher cumulative

mortality rate (31.2%) compared to the non-surgery group (16.8%).

 

American Journal of Cardiology 74 (September 1, 1994): 454-58

 

Risk of dying during surgery: 4.6 – 11.9%. (1)

 

Risk of permanent brain damage: Assessment with Neuropsychological testing: 15

– 44% (2)

 

(1) Salonen J. T.K. Circulation 91 – 641-655

(2) Brain damage and open heart surgery 1989 Lancet August 12 pp364-366

 

Only about 11% of all bypass operations are performed on heart patients for whom

surgery clearly prolongs life: Only those suffering an obstruction of the left

main artery.

 

The National Institute of Health 1983

 

Bypass operations jumped from 21,000 in 1971 to 407,000 in 1991.

 

Coronary artery bypass graft surgery (GABG) is pronounced “Cabbage†by

surgeons. At $50,000 a pop, they love cabbage!

 

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95 % of coronary heart disease are not only preventable but also reversible with

nutrition and few supplements. See Dr Dean Ornish, Dr Esselstyne , Dr Mac

Dougall

[Guest guest]

Anna if your fiance will have his surgery or not here is something that will

help:

 

How to reverse Coronary Disease

from the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio

Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., MD and Surgeon

 

 

Introduction

 

 

I have drawn two compelling observations from my service as the program director

of 2 national cholesterol conferences and my participation in 3 others over the

past decade. First, a great deal is known about what factors are responsible for

causing coronary artery disease and what populations are vulnerable. Second, the

present emphasis of identifying risk factors and those who are particularly

vulnerable to atherosclerotic disease will not resolve the cardiovascular

epidemic, which presently threatens 1 of 2 Americans and is predicted to become

the number one global disease burden by the year 2020. 1

 

Autopsy data from the conflicts in Korea 2 and Vietnam 3 the Bogalusa study,4

and the PDAY5 study all testify to the ubiquitous nature of the disease in young

Americans. Recently, intra-arterial ultrasonography confirmed that “normalâ€

segments in patients with coronary artery disease also have diffuse symmetrical

atherosclerosis, which is not yet disfiguring the intra-luminal diameter and

thus is invisible to angiography.6 This work is further confirmation of the

Roberts autopsy data, which demonstrates that essentially all patients with

ischemic heart disease have triple vessel involvement.7

 

However, coronary artery disease is virtually absent in cultures that eat

plant-based diets, such as the Tarahumara Indians of northern Mexico,8 the Papua

highlanders of New Guinea,9 and the inhabitants of rural China10 and central

Africa.11 Hundreds of thousands of rural Chinese go for years without a single

documented myocardial infarction.10.

 

 

More with coronary angiograms of results

 

http://www.jmbblog.com/coronary-heart-disease-part-4-you-can-reverse-it/