| Show Heart Hearl Disorder C Cs s Still Re naB ui i U k wr There are great gaps saps in medical sciences science's knowledge n about the heart and its ders Still unknown for example example ex ex- ample are the underlying causes of oC high blood pressure and rheumatic fever disorders responsible for more than 90 percent of all aU heart disease which is this nations nation's nations nation's nations nation's na na- tion's foremost health enemy But the outlook is bright with promise PEOPLE no longer view heart disease as a life sentence sentence sen sen- tence to invalidism and ty The outlook has shifted from Crom one of despair to one of oC optimism And why is this so Simply because medical science science science ence has made great strides in diagnosis and treatment of or most kinds ands of or heart disease and has given the hope of added years of oC useful life to the person with heart trouble Among the many advances ad which have improved the outlook outlook outlook out out- look for lor heart patients are arc n numerous u mer 0 new e w techniques and devices which help doctors doctors doctors doc doc- tors learn what the trouble is Diagnosis is always a necessary necessary necessary sary first step to treatment TIlE TIIE MODERN doctor is no longer li limited to feeling the pulse listening to the beat of the heart or tapping the patients patient's patients patient's patients patient's pa pa- tient's chest although these methods are still important and useful To get more precise precise precise pre pre- cise information about the patients patient's patients patient's patients patient's pa pa- tient's heart its functioning and its Us faults today physicians physicians physicians may call on any my number number number num num- ber of or diagnostic aids Many of or these are standard equipment equipment equipment equip equip- ment in their own offices In addition many cardiac cen cen- exist today where expert experts experts ex ex- pert who specialize in certain techniques can provide the individual in in- di doctor with more detailed detailed detailed de de- tailed information on which to base his diagnosis and treatment I IThe The size of the heart itself can now be measured precisely precisely precisely pre pre- its electrical impulses recorded from several se sides and its sounds amplified for more accurate study Tin Tiny tubes called catheters can be inserted into blood vessels and passed directly into the heart to detect abnormalities like I holes in the wall that separates separates separates sepa sepa- rates the right and left sides I IBy By means of these tubes pressures inside the heart can be measured and blood samples samples samples sam sam- ples obtained for many different different differ differ- different ent kinds of oC study Dyes Des can be injected which travel with the blood and register their arrival at monitoring points providing information about the circulation WHEN WilEN DOCTORS suspect an aneurysm a dangerously dangerously dangerously danger danger- weakened artery wall that might rupture x-rays x of oC the Ute arteries are called forto for forto forto to find the exact location so that the weak spot spat may be surgically repaired To do this blood vessels are injected with an opaque d dye e which shows upon upon up upon on x-ray x film and points up the weak spot clearly and with certainty The same technique is used when clogging arteries are suspected of oC interfering with the circulation to man many parts of the body including the brain and paves the way for various types of blood vessel yes ves sel set surgery Persistent research h has a abrought s brought man many improvements improvement s to this valuable u e c known as stenography one of oC the newest being amazing ray x-ray movies mo which can visualize visualize vis UvIs- blood vessels as small as 1 l of oC an inch in eter These split-second split movies mo ies ics 60 GO frames per second use an to intensify light from Crom 1200 to limes times and have made it possible to study the arteries which feed the heart muscle itself the coronary arteries which figure in heart attacks THESE AND other precision methods of oC studying the heart hear t ted te and circulatory system have hav e been discovered and improved ed through years of tireless research research research re re- search much of oC it supported by the Heart Association More 1010 research is necessary t to find newer and better aids t to 0 help doctors in their task o of diagnosis and treatment of or heart and blood vessel es cs These diseases account Cormore for Cor fo r more than Utan half of or the deaths in the Ute US U.S. each year In point poin t of or actual fact tact there Utere are m more ore than Utan 20 separate forms lorms of heart disease and many kinds of oC blood vessel disease Y Your o ur uro Heart Fund Fwd gift gilt fights the them m all |
