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...Over the next few days, his doctors will perform a series of tests to determine what caused the seizure. One likely reason could be his heart; last October, Kennedy underwent surgery to clear blockages in his left carotid artery, one of two major blood vessels in the neck that shunt blood from the heart to the brain. Plaque buildup in these vessels, says Dr. Roger Blumenthal, director of preventive cardiology at Johns Hopkins Hospital - who has not treated the Senator - generally means that the heart vessels may contain considerable plaque as well. If pieces of these plaques break...
Doctors have clearly been worried for a while now that Sen. Edward Kennedy, 76, of Massachusetts might suffer a stroke. Last October, they operated on the carotid artery on the left side of Kennedy's neck to clear the plaque that was building up inside it. The concern: that some of that arterial plaque might break off and form a clot in the Senator's brain, interrupting the flow of blood to his cerebrum. After the operation, he was probably also given aspirin or other medications to thin his blood and decrease the risk that he would form a clot...
...extended delay in reporting the results of the Vytorin study - called ENHANCE - Schering-Plough spokesperson Lee Davies told TIME that it was due to the time involved in reading and interpreting the tens of thousands of images of the carotid arteries that the study generated - data that had been available since April 2006. The company's procrastination prompted much discussion among heart doctors and on Capitol Hill: At the end of 2007, the House Energy and Commerce Committee sent a letter to the two manufacturers asking for the findings - and noting that the end point of the study specified...
Disario said he stayed with Colono until Boston Emergency Medical Service officers arrived on the scene. He said that when he checked Colono’s carotid artery for a pulse it was faint, which indicated that Colono “was losing blood somewhere...
Disario said he stayed with Colono until Boston Emergency Medical Service officers arrived on the scene. He said that when he checked Colono’s carotid artery for a pulse it was faint, which indicated that Colono “was losing blood somewhere...