(Dr.
A.P.J. ABDUL KALAM)
EXTRACT FROM THE PRESIDENT
OF INDIA
DR. A.P.J.ABDUL KALAM’S
ADDRESS AT THE 6TH ANNUAL
CONVENTION OF SOUTH ASIAN SOCIETY
FOR ATHEROSCLEROSIS AND THROMBOSIS
(THROUGH VIDEO CONFERENCE)
30-10-2004 : New Delhi
Mission towards Healthy Hearts
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PROGRESS
IN TREATMENT OF CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE
We have all witnessed
the treatment of cardiovascular disease
moving from very invasive to less invasive
methods. In the seventies bypass surgery
was the big news, in the eighties it was
balloon angioplasty and in the nineties
it was the stent.
Now, moving a step further
is a totally non-invasive treatment -
EXTERNAL COUNTER PULSATION (ECP),
a truly non-operative, non-pharmaceutical,
safe and effective treatment which has made
big news in the west. ECP
is FDA (USA) approved and
finds reference in medical and cardiology
textbooks. Many favorable articles have
been published in the
Journal of the American College of Cardiology,
Cardiovascular Reviews Reports, Cardiology,
Mayo Clinical Proc., Clinical Cardiology,
Journal of Critical Illness, Journal of
External Counter Pulsation,
etc. The success of
ECP can be judged from the
fact that in USA the insurance sector reported
that the reimbursement for ECP
has gone up by 6 % whereas that of other
procedure like angioplasty, bypass surgery,
etc. has come down by 7%. Now the treatment
is available in most of the leading hospitals
of the world.
In India, ECP
is available at Sibia
Medical Centre, Ludhiana besides Escort
Heart Institute and Research Centre, New
Delhi, Peoples General Hospital, Bhopal,
Jamnagar etc.
It is well known that
following bypass surgery - only 75% patients
are symptom free for 5 years or more and
only 50% after 10 years or more. The number
of patients having recurrence after bypass,
ballooning and stinting is increasing and
for them ECP
is the only FDA
approved treatment available which is documented
to increases blood supply to the heart by
20-42%, to the brain by 22-26% and to the
kidneys by 19%. ECP
also increases heart's output. More patients
now prefer non-invasive treatments. With
improved cerebral circulation patients may
notice improved memory, etc. Annual Convention
may like to study this technique of ECP.
source
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