by Carolyn Thomas ♥ @HeartSisters
Remember last month when I covered the topic of “stretch pain” in heart patients who have had a coronary stent implanted?
To recap, temporary post-stent stretch pain in the chest is considered to be due to the dilation (stretching) of an artery while a metal stent is being implanted inside that artery, and it typically occurs in about 40 per cent of stent patients.1 A number of you wrote in with some variation of this question: “Is it still stretch pain if it’s happening months afterwards?”
And now a new study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology suggests that something entirely different might be going on.2 Continue reading “Coronary stents: interventions that come with a cost”
ve on an island, so we’re often dependent on the ferries that carry islanders to the mainland and back. And because this is Canada’s west coast, high winds or rough seas can very occasionally cause sudden sailing delays or outright cancellations. When this happens, we often don’t know when sailings will resume, and nobody can tell us. Uncertainty like this about what daily life will bring includes both the routinely ordinary (what’s causing this traffic jam?) and the potentially important (when will 
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