Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 The first received bypass surgery; the second had balloon angioplasty. The tesults? For patients suffering heart complications from diabetes, bypass seemed to work better than angioplasty. For all others, bypass conferred no advantage: fot patients who received bypass, five year mortality was 4.6%; in the groups that received angioplasty, mortality was 4.2%.23 According to a 1998 editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine: "There were no significant differences for overall mortality regardless of symptoms, left ventricular function, or number of diseased vessels. |
| This "chain of survival," is not only cost effective, but also saves lives—perhaps more than, say, the much heralded cardiac bypass surgery. Indeed, the connection between hospital and community is one that needs strengthening, for the betterment of both personal and public health.
"The center cannot hold," wrote William Butler Yeats. "Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world."
With the disappearance of medicine, the center—the ER—would be gone. Some would die. But, interestingly, the edges would hold. The links in the "chain of survival" would not break. Some would also survive. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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 Through the study, Abe had another angiogram, which led to his second bypass surgery when he was sixty-five. But as he says today, "If I had the knowledge base I have now, I would not even have had the first bypass." That second surgery provided "the final flash of insight and self-awareness, and sent me into the preventive mode. I was ready when Dr. Esselstyn came along."
It took hand-holding to get Abe past his cravings for the fat-filled diet he had enjoyed for so many years. But he committed himself to my nutrition plan, and he has stuck with it ever since. |
Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 His angiography results were worrisome to say the least—coronary arteries so narrow and diseased that bypass surgery had to be ruled out as a solution.
Joe was a treatment nightmare, and his odds of living a long or comfortable life were slim. I share his story because, together, we found ways for him to age vibrantly, despite his poor circulation.
The traditional treatment three decades ago was to control Joe's symptoms by slashing the oxygen demand on his heart with medications such as beta blockers, which hold down heart rate and blood pressure. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 Many doctors recommend angioplasty or bypass surgery for people with hardening of the arteries, particularly for those with disabling angina. Angioplasty is a procedure in which blocked vessels are reopened by flattening cholesterol and debris against artery walls. bypass surgery involves taking healthy blood vessels from elsewhere in the body (usually the leg) and inserting them to detour around a diseased coronary artery. |
Dawson Church
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 How did we get to a point in medicine where interventions such as radioactive stents, coronary angioplasty, and bypass surgery are considered conventional, whereas eating vegetables, walking, meditating, and participating in support groups are considered radical?"22
Yet I predict that our definition of what is—and is not—conventional in medicine will shift, and shift quickly. Scholar Jean Houston, in her book Jump Time, points out that social evolution does not happen in a gradual upward curve.23 It is marked by long plateaus, followed by rapid jumps. |
Eric R. Braverman
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 Hospital procedures, such as bypass surgery or even something as common as general anesthesia, can also damage memory. Researchers tell us that invasive procedures for saving the heart frequendy mean losing memory. For example, studies have shown that five years after bypass surgery, 42 percent of patients suffer from cognitive decline. Virtually any surgery is a memory challenge and can start the cycle of memory loss.
Alzheimer's disease: the ultimate negative edge effect
Alzheimer's disease is one of the most frightening prospects of old age. |
Dawson Church
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| A heroic last-option quadruple bypass surgery saved his life—but just barely.
"Irv had pretty bad diabetes for about fifteen years. That set him up for his severe heart attack, and a lot of other problems. It also left him with numb and painfully burning feet and hands. I couldn't do much about his diabetes; that was a job for another doctor, but as a pain doc I sure could help him with the burning damage to his nerves.
"I adjusted his nerve medications, put him on a couple of new things, a couple of supplements, and then we just sat and talked for about twenty minutes. |
Shannon Brownlee
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 Instead, Moon went straight to a coronary artery catheterization and promptly declared that she needed immediate bypass surgery and a heart valve replaced. Campbell was surprised both by the speed with which Moon used catheterization and by the diagnosis, but he assumed the cardiologist knew best.
Later that same day, however, Campbell got another call, from a young cardiovascular surgeon who was a newly arrived partner of Realy-vasquez's. In that doctor's opinion, Rosburg did not need surgery. |
Dawson Church
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| To reformulate the question in medical terms: Is there a point at which prayer, hope, and other practices could make obsolete a surgicalprocedure like sawing through a patient's sternum in order to do bypass surgery?
SPACE FOR
Belief Tkerapy
If I toldpatients to raise their blood levels of immune globulins or killer T-cells, no one would know how. But if lean teach them to love themselves and others fully, the same change happens automatically. The truth is: Love heals.
—Bernie Siegel, M.D. |
Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| It looked at several important clinical outcome parameters, including cardiac death, reinfarction, unstable angina, stroke, coronary angioplasty, and bypass surgery. Patients were followed for one year.
This study showed for the first time that treatment with coenzyme Qiq was associated with significant decline in total cardiac events, including nonfatal heart attacks and cardiac deaths, during the one-year of follow up. Total cardiac events at twenty-eight-days of follow up were also significantly lower in the coenzyme Qio group than in a group treated with B vitamins. |
Shannon Brownlee
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| Abramson never understood how a harmonious marriage could fall apart so completely so late in life, until he began reading the literature on bypass surgery. Half of bypass patients over sixty-five, he learned, suffer from some form of dementia as a result of their surgery. "The reason he was fighting with his wife was he had a cognitive impairment," says Abramson. "He would ask her the same question over and over again. When they fought, she would say, 'Damn it, you just asked me that.' He had pump head. |
| While in Florida one winter, Graydon suffered a heart attack and underwent bypass surgery. Back home in Boston in the spring, he came to Abramson's office with a postsurgical infection in the sternum, the bone that runs up the middle of the chest.
Every day, for several weeks, Graydon and his wife came to Abramson for Graydon to have his wound drained. That meant removing a half-inch-wide, two-foot-long piece of gauze from the hole in Graydon's chest and then repacking the wound, inch by inch, with a fresh length of gauze. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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 People have commented on how well I look now that I have had the bypass surgery, which I have not had! My doctor has found a great deal of difference in my health now and told me, 'Keep doing what you're doing.' That sounds good to me!"
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Details of the Energetic Integrators
PETER'S MATCHING TESTS have opened a window that allows you to see clearly the beauty and intricacy of your bioenergetic self. The Energetic Integrators reveal how your physical and energetic aspects are interconnected with and dependent on the field structures that make up your body-field. |
Shannon Brownlee
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| In 2002, Medicare paid $24,000 per bypass surgery with cardiac catheterization, while the average cost per case, according to a report put out by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), was $14,400, leaving $9,600 profit for every bypassed patient. Other cardiac procedures offer even higher margins: Replacing a heart valve, the surgery Patrick Campbell's patient Mary Rosburg underwent, can yield as much as 60 percent profit. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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| Her energy level was up, and her platelet count was restored enough that her doctor advised her to prepare for the bypass surgery. Paula was feeling so much better that she requested another angiogram to see if the blockage in her heart artery was better, which might make the operation unnecessary, but that test was not repeated. Paula's doctor advised her to continue with NES as an adjunct treatment to his own prescribed allopathic treatment, and he had Paula come to his office to meet a colleague to tell him about her NES treatment and discuss the progress she had made. |
| When she sought out a NES practitioner, Debra Carter, in late 2004, she had been on a list for bypass surgery for nearly two years, but her blood platelets had been chronically low, too low for her to be a good candidate for the operation.
Paula's first NES scan showed Muscle Driver, Cell Driver, and Bone Driver as the most distorted aspects of her body-field, and these were the three Infoceuticals she was put on. Carter also advised Paula to quit smoking, take a B-complex vitamin, and take red cayenne pepper capsules to strengthen her nervous system and possibly stimulate her circulation. |
Shannon Brownlee
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| The cardiologist performed a stress test, then catheterization, and told Campbell by phone that the patient had severe, three-vessel coronary artery disease and needed immediate bypass surgery. The surgery was done the next day. When Campbell received the written report from her catheterization, two months after her surgery, he was shocked to see that the cardiologist had indicated that the patient had only mild to moderate coronary artery disease and that her chest pain was not caused by her heart. |
| It turns out that even bypass surgery offers a reduction in the chances of dying for only a tiny minority of patients. To perform a bypass, a surgeon takes a section of vein from the patient's leg and sews the ends above and below a blocked section of coronary artery, so that blood bypasses the blockage. Three large clinical trials looking at the survival benefit of bypass suggested that it helps only the sickest of the sick, about 3 percent of patients in the trials who underwent bypass. Dr. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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 If you take medications for high blood pressure, diabetes, arthritis, cholesterol, depression, stomach acid, or pain—or get stents or bypass surgery or have colon polyps removed-you're doing just that: covering up the signals that killer genes have been activated.
Shockingly, the number of people on Medicare being treated simultaneously for four or more medical conditions has doubled from 1987 to 2002.30 During this same period, the rate of obesity in the United States also doubled-a one to one correlation. |
Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| In this study, 143 adults with an average age of 69 years were admitted to the hospital for bypass surgery using the "off pump" or "beating heart" technique. Of the 143 patients, 66 came into the hospital as the result of a heart attack and remained in the hospital to have the surgery. Each patient was treated with ribose three times per day beginning when they were admitted to the hospital until they went in for surgery. Patients that were treated with ribose showed a 43% improvement in cardiac index, while the historical control is 13%. |
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II
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 The angioplasty procedure alone costs $31,000, and bypass surgery costs $46,000.32 In marked contrast, the year-long lifestyle intervention program only costs $7,000. By comparing the patients who underwent the lifestyle program with those patients who underwent the traditional route of surgery, Dr. Ornish and his colleagues demonstrated that the lifestyle intervention program cut costs by an average of $30,000 per patient.32
Much work remains to be done. The health care establishment is structured to profit from chemical and surgical intervention. |
Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D.
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 If chelation therapy were proven to be effective, millions of Americans would be spared expensive and dangerous bypass surgery, and tens of billions of dollars would be saved.
Hormone Therapy
Testosterone deficiency has been implicated as a contributing factor in various types of heart and blood-vessel disease.14,15 In a 1946 study, 100 patients (92 men, 8 women) with angina were treated with testosterone (propionate) injections for 4 to 5 months. |
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II
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| Bypass surgery has become particularly popular. As many as 380,000 bypass operations were performed in 1990,30 meaning that about 1 out of 750 Americans underwent this extreme surgery. During the operation, the patient's chest is split open, blood flow is rerouted by a series of clamps, pumps and machines, and a leg vein or chest artery is cut out and sewn over a diseased part of the heart, thereby allowing blood to bypass the most clogged arteries.
The costs are enormous. More than one of every fifty elective patients will die because of complications31 during the $46,000 procedure. |
John Robbins
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 What we know_
Risk of dying during bypass surgery: 4.6-11.9 percent37
Risk of permanent brain damage from bypass surgery: 15-44 percent38
Recipients of bypass surgery for whom it prolongs life: 2 percent39
Risk of death during angioplasty: 0.4-2.8 percent40
Risk of major complications developing during angioplasty: 10 percent41
Studies that have found that angioplasty prolongs life or prevents heart attacks: Zero42
Patients undergo bypass and angioplasty operations primarily to relieve angina and improve blood flow to the heart. |
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II
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| On another occasion John had referred a patient to a cardiologist and the cardiologist incorrectly told the patient that he needed to have bypass surgery. After a couple of these incidents, John had reached the limit of his patience. Finally, after the cardiologist recommended surgery for another one of John's patients, John called him and said, "I want to talk with you and the patient about this. I would like to discuss the scientific literature that causes you to make this recommendation." The cardiologist said that he wouldn't do that, to which John responded, "Why not? |
| About 70-80% of patients who undergo bypass surgery remain free of this crippling chest pain for one year.34 But this benefit doesn't last. Within three years of the operation, up to one-third of patients will suffer from chest pain again.35 Within ten years half of the bypass patients will have died, had a heart attack or had their chest pain return.36 Long-term studies indicate that only certain subsets of heart disease patients live longer because of their bypass operation. |
| Within the eight years leading up to the study, these eighteen people had suffered through forty-nine coronary events, including angina, bypass surgery, heart attacks, strokes and angioplasty. These were not healthy hearts. One might imagine that they were motivated to join the study by the panic created when premature death is near.42,43
These eighteen patients achieved remarkable success. At the start of the study, the patients' average cholesterol level was 246 mg/dL. During the course of the study, the average cholesterol was 132 mg/dL, well below the 150 mg/dL target! |
Dr. Timothy Scott
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 But wouldn't it be better if we could control our behavior without the external control imposed by stomach bypass surgery or behavior modification techniques? Being able to do so is called self-control or self-discipline, and its benefits are tremendous.
Self-disciplined students are not any more intelligent than their peers,63 but they are more likely to make better grades and achieve more academic success64 in public school settings,65 in college66 and in graduate school.67 Self-disciplined students are better liked by their fellow students,68 and they are preferred by their teachers. |
Michael Friedman, ND
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 Risk Factors
Coronary heart disease
-s> Heart attack (myocardial infarction)
-» Angina pectoris
Coronary bypass surgery Blockage of arteries to legs ? Transient ischemic attacks <» Blockage of carotid artery Cigarette smoking
High blood pressure
Diabetes
Heart attack of first-degree relative (mother, father, siblings) - if a male before age 55 or female before age 65
<»• Male 45 years or over
Female 55 years or over
Primary Genetic Dyslipidemias
There are five primary, genetically-inherited dyslipidemias. |
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