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Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: Eggs!
From: Charles Geilfuss <charles.geilfuss@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 13:28:50 -0400
  I'm glad you were lucky Jim. The vegetative type of emboli are doubly
bad; not only can they mechanically block a vessel, but they are infectious
as well.

Charlie


On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Charlie,
>
> I guess I'm one of the lucky ones.  Almost exactly 20 years ago, I was
> diagnosed as having endocarditis, with vegetation near the mitral valve.
> The infection was treated with the magic antibiotics of that time, and I
> chose not to have immediate surgery, partly because I enjoyed exercising my
> pilot's license.  Then, in September, a piece of the vegetative material
> came loose and lodged in my ankle and heel, causing excruciating pain.  My
> wife drove me back to Nashville and I was fitted with St. Jude mechanical
> mitral and aortic valves.  The rest has been smooth sailing except for
> dealing with Coumadin.  A doppler echocardiagram a few weeks ago showed the
> valves to be clear and functioning perfectly.
>
> The vegetative material could just as easily have ended up in my brain.
>
> Within the past month, the FAA has announced that it will now consider
> renewing the medical certificates of pilots who have two implanted valves.
> Too late for me, but, hopefully not for other pilots.
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Charles Geilfuss" <charles.geilfuss@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 12:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: Eggs!
>
>
> > Brian,
> >   Regarding myocardial infarction (heart attack), the practical answer is
> > no; virtually all are secondary to atherosclerosis. About 90% of strokes
> > (cerebral infarction) are caused by atherosclerosis. The remaining cases
> > of
> > stroke are due to vasculitis (inflammation of cerebral blood vessels),
> > embolism (in which a piece of a blood clot elsewhere in the body,
> > typically
> > the heart, breaks off and winds up in the brain) or herniation (in which
> > edema of the brain causes it to shift inside the skull and a blood vessel
> > is pinched off by pressure against one of the taut membranes in the brain
> > cavity).
> >
> > Charlie
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Brian Swale <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> >> I appreciate that Charlie and Chuck have taken the time to look closer
> at
> >> what i have put together.
> >>
> >> I'll look closer at what they have written.
> >>
> >> Meantime, a question for Charlie; can people be hit and/or killed by
> >> heart
> >> attack and classical strokes, in the absence of athersclerosis?
> >>
> >> I ask this because what I have read so far indicates not.
> >>
> >> And for Chuck, not only is nitric oxide a signalling molecule, BUT it is
> >> produced by L-argenine, as I have been informed.  Perhaps you missed the
> >> message about that in this video?:
> >>
> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDqLcblMyIY
> >>
> >> Brian Swale
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