Re: The heart has its reasons which the reason does not know

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The heart has its reasons which the reason does not know

> > To: " MGIMS e-group " <mgims >

> > Date: Tuesday, 31 July, 2012, 8:37 AM

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> > Dear all,

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> > Yesterday evening I underwent an emergency angioplasty for an acute

> angina

> > that had hit me yesterday noon. Although my ECG showed minor changes of

> > ischaemia , my BP had shot up. This was the first episode of angina I

> have

> > ever had, and apart from the genes that I inherited from my parents, I

> have

> > no risk factors for coronary artery disease.

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> > An angiogram performed by Dr Pramod Mundra in his private hospital in

> > Nagpur showed 80% occlusion of my left anterior descending artery. The

> > blood flow through the artery was good, though.The cardiologist and the

> > friends, accompanying me in the cath lab toyed between the two options ;

> > medical therapy or angioplasty. The cardiologist, true to the adage,

> > " never ask a barber if you need a hair cut " , chose for the later option.

> > Within minutes, a baloon and a 18 mm drug eluting stent opened my artery

> > and the blood began to flow again.

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> > I am writing this from the ICU bed and hope to go back to Sevagram

> > tomorrow evening. I am grateful to everyone who stood by me during my

> > hospitalisation . As of now I am enjoyed being badly pampered !

> >

> > Best,

> >

> > SP

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> > SP Kalantri, MD, MPH

> > Department of Medicine

> > MGIMS

> > Sevagram | 442102 | Maharashtra | India

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> > Phone: 91 - 7152 - 284134

> > Fax: 91 - 7152 - 284967

> > E-mail: sp.kalantri@...

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