Cocaine Use Effects: Chest Pain May Result from Cocaine Use in Young Healthy Patients. Cocaine use can sometimes be the hidden culprit when young or otherwise healthy patients complain to doctors of chest pain, according to a new scientific statement released Monday by the American Heart Association (AHA).
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Some Imperfect Hearts OK for Transplant
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March 20th, 2008 | Posted in Chest Pain, Cocaine Use, Heart Transplant, heart attacks, heart disease | No Comments
Some Imperfect Hearts OK for Transplant. A heart needn’t be perfect to be used in a transplant, a new study shows.
Five-year results for people given hearts with mild-to-moderate left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) — a thickening of the heart’s main pumping chamber — were as good as for those who got hearts with no problems, cardiologists [...]
March 20th, 2008 | Posted in Heart Transplant, cardiothoracic surgery, health professionals, heart attacks, heart disease | No Comments