DO YOU REALLY NEED BYPASS SURGERY? A SECOND OPINION

MEDICAL TREATMENT PREVENTS HEART ATTACKS, AVOIDS THE SIDE EFFECTS OF SURGERY, SAVES LIVES, AND TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS. AFTER READING THIS BOOK YOU WILL LEARN:

• Why bypass surgery, angioplasty, and stents are obsolete.
• Why the prediction you will have a heart attack or die without immediate bypass surgery is almost always wrong. In truth, the likelihood of having a heart attack or dying during or immediately following bypass surgery is vastly greater.
• Why bypass surgery, angioplasty and stents do not prevent heart attacks or death but actually cause these dreaded complications.
• That the belief that bypass surgery is the only treatment for coronary artery disease is no longer true.
• That symptom relief after bypass surgery has nothing to do with the bypass procedure, and is due to numerous other factors.
• That the true frequency of complications after bypass surgery such as stroke and loss of cognitive function is as high as 30%.
• That the angiogram is the most inaccurate and dangerous test in cardiology, and frequently leads to unnecessary bypass surgery.
• That the heart can develop its own bypasses with proper medical treatment assuring a normal life span and life style.
• How noninvasive tests allow earlier diagnosis and more successful treatment of coronary artery disease with FDA approved drugs thereby relieving symptoms, avoiding disease progression with congestive heart failure, future heart attacks, and premature death.
• Why the author, trained at the Cleveland Clinic, the birthplace of bypass surgery, has replaced surgery with medical treatment.
• Despite new drugs and more sensitive diagnostic tests, patients with recent onset of chest pain who undergo stent insertion or bypass surgery have a 43% higher mortality compared to 25 years ago without these interventions.
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