Cardiac Vascular & Thoracic Surgery. The concept sends chills down my spine since it inevitably conjures up images of white gowned surgeons sawing open the chest cavity and dipping their hands into your core. This is in fact what actually occurs and there’s no denying that one is facing their own mortality when undergoing such [...]

So the last time Dr. Garg worked on my heart in October, he told me that the locations of the further known blockages made the prospect of using stents to prop them open untenable. He would just be pushing this nasty arterial plaque out from one location into another at a junction of arteries,  possibly [...]

I’ve had Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) for some time. This means the arteries in my heart are slowly narrowing due to plaque buildup. I first had a near miss with a heart attack in 1998 when I was living in San Diego. I was 49. The Cardiologist who treated me, Dr. John Gordon, noticed that [...]