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World Heart Day 2007 was well
attended by 500 ex-patients and their families. Free health
talks and consultations were given by our cardiologists,
heart surgeons and other nutritional health experts. Vendors
of heart healthy products were invited to promote their
wares and add to the festivities.
 
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Dr Beh Chor Khim, our HeartScan Consultant, was invited
to present a lecture entitled, " A new
cardiac imaging tool for cardiologists" in a symposium
for radiologists and cardiologist organized by The Radiological
Society of Saudi Arabia at Le Meridien Hotel in
Jeddah on 20th February 2005. He presented the same
lecture to the Cardiology Dept of the King Faisal Specialty Hospital
on 21st Feb2005.
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Consensus Statement From the Cardiac
Imaging Committee, Council on Clinical Cardiology, and the Cardiovascular
Imaging and Intervention Committee, Council on Cardiovascular Radiology
and Intervention, American Heart Association
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Are you headed for a heart attack despite
your low cholesterol? A $400 test makes it easier to find out.
WHEN YOUR CHOLESTEROL IS IN the stratosphere
and slicing bread makes your chest ache, you know you have a problem.
Unfortunately arterial disease doesn't always present such clear warnings ......
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Affairs of the Heart
by MARY CHEN of the Sunday Mail.
Why are doctors treating a disease that had developed
many years before instead of preventing it from happening?
It is so much harder to treat
cardiovascular diseases after symptoms surface, particularly in a heart attack,
and what the cardiologists can do then is often too little and too late. We were treating the problem from the
wrong end, when we should be looking at prevention,....
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Fit but still at
risk by
LORETTA ANN SOOSAYRAJ of New Straits Times, who gets to the heart of the
matter.
HIGH cholesterol, smoking,
obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, family history of heart disease –
these are all the usual high risk factors that indicate an impending heart
attack. Yet there are those seemingly healthy people who unexpectedly suffer
from heart attacks....
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How
I scored in my Heart Scan By KEE THUAN CHYE, New Straits Times
SOMETIMES that pain in your chest can be more than just muscle protest. I
thought as much when I felt it recently. But the stress tests I had undergone
over the years had shown that my ticker was tip-top, so I was not about to
subject myself to another punishing drill on the treadmill. I decided to check
out HeartScan.....
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Keys to life: Manual typewriter, Heartscan.
One enriched life,
the other
saved it by PAUL SIMON, USA
Today
There are two technological developments in
the 2Oth century that have meant much to me: the perfection of the manual
typewriter and a medical breakthrough called the Heartscan. One enriched my
life, and the other may have saved it......
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Show down in New
Orleans.
The debate rages on over the pros and cons of
electron-beam computed tomography (EBCT) and multislice computed
tomography (MDCT). Drs Matthew Budoff and Michael Poon
faced off at the American College of Cardiology 2004 Scientific
Sessions, debating the merits of these options for imaging coronary
arteries....
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Sweet
Valentine
Flowers
will wilt, chocolates will melt .... Candlelight
dinners are but a temporary pleasure.....So
instead give your beloved a precious gift
..The
chance of a lifetime together....
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