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Posted in Heart Disease on Feb 11th, 2010
Despite tremendous improvements in our understanding of the underlying process of cardiovascular disease (CVD) if you have a heart attack there is still a 30% chance you won’t survive. Professor Avijit Lahiri says
Posted in Heart Disease on Feb 3rd, 2010
Prof Lahiri of the Wellington Hospital who said: “Patients with chest pain are referred for initial tests and then sent for an angiogram which involves injecting dye into the veins and then taking a series of x-rays to find narrowing.”
So what exactly is the problem with the usual heart screen?
Posted in Heart Disease on Jan 29th, 2010
Dual CT Infinity Scanning leading UK Cardiologist, Professor Lahiri says: “We have seen many of these types of machine subsequently fail during clinical validation.
Posted in Heart Disease on Jan 18th, 2010
Prof Lahiri’s article – Chest Pain – Cardiac or not? gets straight to the point. Are these chest pains as a result of something wrong with my heart, or worse still, do I have silent disease?
Posted in Heart Disease on Dec 29th, 2009
Intriguing data published in November 2009 suggests that “stress” is an important factor in the development of silent heart disease. Prof Lahiri
Posted in Heart Disease, Uncategorized on Dec 22nd, 2009
Prof Lahiri says: “Chest pains are often the first telltale signs of CVD, however, in many instances the differential diagnosis of chest pain is elusive, leading to a large number of ‘false’ diagnosis”.
Posted in Heart Disease on Dec 18th, 2009
Chest pain can be be warning signs of an imminent heart attack. The quality of cardiac screening varies widely
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