Something New That's Old.

[Johnwen]

This might be a little shocker to some people who have had bypass surgery but the Old Saying ,“once a cardiac patient always a cardiac patient!” Sure comes into play. As you know the medical profession golden cure for CAD is Bypass Surgery (CABG). They take a vein and turn it into an artery which is like taking a VW motor and putting it into a Semi-truck and expecting it to last. Eventually something is bound to give out. Now that bypass surgery has been around a while their seeing that it’s starting to fail. These graff’s are developing growths that appear to be athro-lesions but are actually the cells in the vein (graff) that are growing, dividing and inflaming. Hyperplasia is what it’s called and it was first observed in 1906. Here’s a link that describes what it is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperplasia

Medicines that work at the DNA level have failed left and right. Drug coated stents are short time solutions and they fail within a year of placement.
If you do a search on, ”CABG Graft Restenosis.” You’ll find many pages of how cholesterol is the culprit. How about the 90% that don’t have further blockages of the arteries only in the grafts???

The name that this problem carry’s is, “Neointemal Hyperplasia.”

Some of these pop up within the first year of grafting others take ten years or so before they show up and about 10% of the lucky ones it don’t show up at all.

A few years ago when I started getting familiar with this problem my first thoughts went to Saw Palmetto or Horse Chestnut which both are capable of reversing hyperplasia of the prostrate as while as having other venial benefits.
I was wondering if anybody has any thoughts if these supplements could have any benefits on this type of problem. Everything I’ve researched on it seems to end up in the prostrate.


http://dissertations.ub.rug.nl/facultie ... /g.j.toes/

[Johnwen]

Found some more on intimal hyperplasia which is cells growing out of control in the arteries.
Owen and others fasten your seat belts when you read this one. This guy really lays it out about, Why heart disease is still with us and why most studies aren't worth the paper there written on. Of course he dosen't mention V-C but good reading none the less.



http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2169223/

[Johnwen]

Found some new things that are being tried. Of course it has to be a poison. This one is scorpion venmon.

http://www.shieldsgazette.com/nhshealth ... 6598842.jp

http://www.times-series.co.uk/families/ ... t_op_clue/

I like the way the docs try to cover their butts by saying, "It could be a lot of things."
but they don't say what a lot of things are, do they?
Instead of saying, "You know we have a problem here, let's see if we can get a fix for it !"
After all repeat surgery means, more $$$$$.

[ofonorow]

Thanks johnwen, e.g.

Nevertheless, intimal hyperplasia appears to be the sole or major devastating pathological remodeling in post-interventional complications after angioplasty, bypass operations or stenting [21-23], and once begun, it is untreatable. We introduced bypass surgery, but intimal hyperplasia keeps growing in the grafted veins and arteries. We introduced angioplasty with balloon dilatation, but intimal hyperplasia grows after vessel stretching. We introduced angioplasty with stenting, but intimal hyperplasia keeps growing through the stents. We introduced stents with the best rational design – radioactive emission – but intimal hyperplasia, together with late thrombosis [24-26], again significantly hampered this innovation [27]. We introduced drug-eluting stents, which retard growth, but intimal hyperplasia continues [28-31]. Intimal hyperplasia threatens literally every known vascular reconstructive procedure and no prophylaxis is available [32,33].

There is of course a well known "prophylaxis", at least at this forum. Of course if the author had suggested, as does Dr. Levy in STOP AMERICA'S #1 KILLER, that the root cause is focal scurvy, this would never have been published.