Charlie,
I guess I'm one of the lucky ones. Almost exactly 20 years ago, I was
diagnosed as having endocarditis, with vegetation near the mitral valve.
The infection was treated with the magic antibiotics of that time, and I
chose not to have immediate surgery, partly because I enjoyed exercising my
pilot's license. Then, in September, a piece of the vegetative material
came loose and lodged in my ankle and heel, causing excruciating pain. My
wife drove me back to Nashville and I was fitted with St. Jude mechanical
mitral and aortic valves. The rest has been smooth sailing except for
dealing with Coumadin. A doppler echocardiagram a few weeks ago showed the
valves to be clear and functioning perfectly.
The vegetative material could just as easily have ended up in my brain.
Within the past month, the FAA has announced that it will now consider
renewing the medical certificates of pilots who have two implanted valves.
Too late for me, but, hopefully not for other pilots.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Geilfuss" <charles.geilfuss@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 12:00 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: Eggs!
> Brian,
> Regarding myocardial infarction (heart attack), the practical answer is
> no; virtually all are secondary to atherosclerosis. About 90% of strokes
> (cerebral infarction) are caused by atherosclerosis. The remaining cases
> of
> stroke are due to vasculitis (inflammation of cerebral blood vessels),
> embolism (in which a piece of a blood clot elsewhere in the body,
> typically
> the heart, breaks off and winds up in the brain) or herniation (in which
> edema of the brain causes it to shift inside the skull and a blood vessel
> is pinched off by pressure against one of the taut membranes in the brain
> cavity).
>
> Charlie
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Brian Swale <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I appreciate that Charlie and Chuck have taken the time to look closer at
>> what i have put together.
>>
>> I'll look closer at what they have written.
>>
>> Meantime, a question for Charlie; can people be hit and/or killed by
>> heart
>> attack and classical strokes, in the absence of athersclerosis?
>>
>> I ask this because what I have read so far indicates not.
>>
>> And for Chuck, not only is nitric oxide a signalling molecule, BUT it is
>> produced by L-argenine, as I have been informed. Perhaps you missed the
>> message about that in this video?:
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDqLcblMyIY
>>
>> Brian Swale
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