X-Message-Number: 15462 From: "Gary Tripp" <> Subject: re: treating enlarged hearts? Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 11:46:37 -0500 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_000D_01C08856.CE627D60 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" : writes: This may be a bit off topic, but I have a friend who has recently been diagnosed with an enlarged heart, left ventricle, with dilated blood vessels in that ventricle. He's told its a bad prognosis, that he may need a heart transplant to survive- of course the best of those only last ten years. My friend is 57. I'm urging him to consider Cryonics Institute, for price reasons I think that is his best option. In addition to cryonics your friend may also want to consider an operation called "left ventricular volume reduction". The surgery was first performed here in Canada at Toronto Western in 1997. The idea is that an enlarged heart does not pump efficiently (low ejection fraction etc) causing the heart to respond by once again enlarging etc. The operation restores some mechanical efficiency to the heart. Untreated, the condition could lead to cardiomyopathy which, in turn, ultimately ends in death. Prior to such an operation it would be a good idea to have your friend ingest copious amounts of Q10 CoEnzyme, Vitamin E, NADH and Acetyl-L Carnitine. /gary ------=_NextPart_000_000D_01C08856.CE627D60 Content-Type: text/html; [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=15462