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yellowwing
09-03-04, 06:09 PM
Clinton Can Have Active Life After Bypass, Doctors Say
Fri Sep 3, 2004 04:47 PM ET
By Ransdell Pierson and William Borden
NEW YORK (Reuters) (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=healthNews&storyID=6149360)

Former President Bill Clinton can anticipate a fully productive life after coronary bypass surgery, but may need to take a daily handful of pills and curb his fast-food habit to keep his arteries from re-clogging, top cardiologists said on Friday.

Clinton's wife, U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, said he was admitted to Columbia Presbyterian hospital and is scheduled to have bypass surgery as soon as Saturday after he complained of chest pains and shortness of breath.

Leading cardiologists said bypass surgery, although a serious operation, is a very effective treatment that usually entails little risk for a person of Clinton's relatively young age of 58.

ABC News said Clinton was found to have multiple blockages and other TV reports said he would undergo a quadruple bypass.

Patients need quadruple bypasses when medical tests show that blood flow through three or more coronary arteries has become blocked by plaque, a process that typically takes decades and is influenced by genetics and lifestyle as well as diet.

When Clinton was on the campaign trail, he was known for his stops at fast-food restaurants to grab cheeseburgers, and his weight fluctuated during his eight-year term, which ended in January 2001.

Typically, three of the affected arteries feed blood to the left ventricle, the heart's pumping chamber. Surgeons harvest arteries and veins from the chest and legs and stitch them into the heart, thereby bypassing the clogged arteries and delivering blood to heart tissue by substitute routes.

In turn, a fourth new artery is typically grafted onto a branch of one of those three arteries.

"So you wind up with a set of four new arteries feeding the heart, and most people have an excellent long-term prognosis afterward," said Dr. Christopher Cannon, of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

Okay, here's where the reporting gets weird...

"Listening to Republican speeches at the convention could have increased Clinton's adrenaline and set things off," said Cannon, who noted that stress is a well-known cause of chest pains.

"It turns out he came in yesterday during the day, it could have been Cheney's speech the night before," said Cannon, who noted that speeches from Vice President Dick Cheney and U.S. Sen. Zell Miller could have raised Clinton's adrenaline level.

thedrifter
09-03-04, 06:11 PM
Thanks yellowwing for the update been watching and reading....
...

Ellie

yellowwing
09-03-04, 06:17 PM
When I saw the report on CNN, they had sound bites of Hillary. She kept saying "...the doctors advised him...", rather than the normal, "...advised us..." - hmmm.

Is that what they call "other priorities"? :banana:

thedrifter
09-03-04, 06:24 PM
LOL....

With them I expect anything.....;)


Ellie

Sparrowhawk
09-03-04, 10:24 PM
talk Monica into taking first watch.

Then again, I also heard that Bill & Hillary were conferring on the Kerry campaign, and figured if Bill campaigned for him as was the plan, they couldn't put out much of a punch against Cheney, and it wasn't looking good for Kerry, so if he looses it would mess up Hillary's chances after that, so they decided this operation would do Bill good and get him out of circulation from that Canadian women he's been seeing. .. Every one wins. And forget about Kerry. LMAO