{"id":354,"date":"2001-09-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-09-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/mind-body-surgery-to-avoid-3-angioplasty\/"},"modified":"2001-09-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-09-01T00:00:00","slug":"mind-body-surgery-to-avoid-3-angioplasty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/mind-body-surgery-to-avoid-3-angioplasty\/","title":{"rendered":"Surgery to Avoid #3: Angioplasty"},"content":{"rendered":"
The third of 5 operations you don't want to get—and what to do instead.<\/strong><\/p>\n Every year in the United States, surgeons perform 1.2 million angioplasties, during which a cardiologist uses tiny balloons and implanted wire cages (stents) to unclog arteries. This Roto-Rooter-type approach is less invasive and has a shorter recovery period than bypass, which is open-heart surgery. The problem: A groundbreaking study of more than 2,000 heart patients, just released this year at a cardiology conference and in The New England Journal of Medicine<\/em>, indicated that a completely nonsurgical method—heart medication—was just as beneficial as angioplasty and stents in keeping arteries open in many patients. The bottom line: Angioplasty did not appear to prevent heart attacks or save lives among nonemergency heart subjects in the study.<\/p>\n