Tomorrow you’ll find updated questionnaires on this website. I re-designed the one already there, and added two others: No. 1 is for patients with issues about their treatment; No. 2 is a Risk assessment for developing CAD and stroke; No. 3 is an analysis tool for evaluation of chest pain. As you may have noticed from previous blogs, treatment for …
Medical Therapy for Stable Coronary Artery Disease
Yet another article compares Medical therapy with PCI (Stenting) in patients with stable Coronary Artery Disease. This time the focus was on control of angina symptoms, rather than survival. However, its conclusions were similar in that in this group of stable patients, medical therapy alone has become just as effective as PCI (75% vs. 77% control of symptoms). What surprised …
Stents Downgraded by Wall Street Journal: If Only It Were That Simple
Attn: Burt Cohen Re: Stents Downgraded by Wall Street Journal: If Only It Were That Simple. Dear Mr Cohen, Like you I responded to the article “A Simple Health-Care Fix Fizzles Out” by Keith Winstein of the WSJ, dd 2/22/2010: However, unlike you, I drew somewhat different conclusions: RE: WSJ Simplifies Study Results by Ignoring Key Issues … you define …
A patient with Coronary Artery Disease
I thought to post a recent evaluation of a patient who contacted me for consultation: Mrs. XYZ, DOB: 1955 57 years old White Female, with low level Angina and progressive loss of exercise tolerance (fatigue, “can’t do much anymore”). (A significant factor in her care may well have included no health insurance, even though she rendered full payments at the …