WHEN HEARTS Attack.

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  • Author(s): ERDMANN, JEANNE (AUTHOR)
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    Discover. Jul/Aug2020, Vol. 41 Issue 5, p48-52. 5p. 6 Color Photographs, 1 Black and White Photograph, 1 Diagram.
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      Mindful of every minute, DeVor transmits the EKG results to the hospital and alerts the ER team that the patient is on the way. "Dead heart muscle from severe damage becomes scar tissue, so the heart pump often will fail to work well from that point forward if not treated quickly", says Nicholas Ruthmann, a staff cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. That's why, he says, "We sometimes call the cath lab 'the table of truth.'" Once in the cath lab, the cardiologist, guided by X-ray, snakes a balloon-tipped catheter through a blood vessel - in this case, in the patient's groin - up to his heart. Adams says it's typically obvious why patients have heart attacks - except to the patients themselves. INSETS: Look Inside: The Heart;The Heart of a Woman. [Extracted from the article]
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