Last year at this time, I wrote about a patient who had been posting in our Patient Forum. He had received a stent graft to treat an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) and wanted to share his story, and also wanted to find other AAA patients. This type of aneurysm was previously only treatable via open surgery. But with advances in device technology, patients were able to receive a AAA stent graft percutaneously, through a catheter in the femoral artery (groin/leg) much like standard angioplasty. Continue reading
Category Archives: Patients
AAA Stent Graft Revisited
Stent By Wrist in Houston
“A new twist on stents” is how Channel 13 KTRK-TV, the ABC affiliate in Houston, billed Christi Myers’ story today about the transradial approach to angioplasty and stenting. We’ve been writing about the growing adoption of radial access in the U.S. for four years now, so it’s great to see a TV report on this technique…because it means that patients in that locale (Houston, Texas) will be that much more aware that there is an option, a choice to be made, when having to get an angiogram, angioplasty or stent placed. (The piece profiles Dr. Colin Barker of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.) Continue reading
Filed under Media Coverage, Patient Experience, Transradial Approach
Heart Attack Stopped with a Stent
I’m working on at least six different articles about the many studies presented at the American College of Cardiology in New Orleans yesterday and today, from new stents to transradial vs. femoral access, etc. etc. etc. and suddenly all of this is swept aside by an email that arrived in my Inbox seconds ago, posting the following to the topic of Heart Attack and Stents or Angioplasty on our Patients Forum:
Filed under Heart Attack, Patients, Stent
Smoking After Sex: A Double Heart Attack Risk?
Okay. Now that I have your attention…. Sure, we all know that smoking significantly increases the risk of having a heart attack…but sex? Well a study, published in this week’s Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) looks at this topic, in an article titled, “Association of Episodic Physical and Sexual Activity With Triggering of Acute Cardiac Events“. And it’s a topic that a not insignificant number of readers writing into Angioplasty.Org’s Patient Forum are concerned about. Continue reading
Filed under Clinical Trials / Studies, Heart Attack, Patients
Heart Stent Success Stories
I just wanted to share a patient’s posting from earlier today on Angioplasty.Org’s Patient Forum Topic titled, “Exercise, Sport, Physical Activity After Stent“:
It’s great to hear of everyone’s victories recovery-wise, both major and minor. I had 3 coronary stents in Nov 2010 during 3 separate procedures and the cardio told me exercise as I wish… So, 2 10km running races and a half-marathon completed since the stents went in, and I’m now training for triathlons! Continue reading
Filed under Patient Experience, Patients, Social Networking
Wanted: Marathoners with Stents, Pacemakers, Heart Valves
Medtronic (NYSE: MDT) has made its yearly announcement that it is looking for runners from around the world who have benefited from medical technology to participate in the company’s 6th Annual Medtronic Global Heroes program.
I “liked” this event on their Facebook page because the idea of people living their lives to the fullest after having a catastrophic medical crisis, and being rescued by modern medical technology, goes right to the (okay…pun coming…) heart of the matter. Continue reading
Filed under Patients
Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Stent Graft Athlete
One of the things about working at Angioplasty.Org that warms my heart (pun intended) is connecting with patients around the world. Our Patient Forum gets posts from the U.S., U.K., Pakistan, Poland, India, Iran, China, Chile and…North Carolina. That’s where Kevin Morgan lives and where he publishes his new blog, athletewithstent.com.
All too often, our Forum serves as a kind of complaint department — where patients write in about problems they are having after stents, angioplasty, angiograms, etc. They usually find our Forum through search engines like Google (e.g. look up “Stents Plavix Aspirin“). And these posts are important because on our Forum people can share stories and discover they are not alone. Continue reading
Filed under Patient Empowerment, Patients, Social Networking, Video
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