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    Naked Heart: Calcium Scoring
    Naked Heart: Calcium Scoring
    Naked Heart: Calcium Scoring
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    Naked Heart: Calcium Scoring

    By Edward Leatham

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    The Naked Heart comprises a collection of simple explanations and illustrations used by the author in his every day medical practice to explain common heart conditions. It is a pioneering initiative designed to help people who have received a diagnosis or who are considering specialist consultation or screening testing, to make informed decisions.

    Health screening for heart disease in general is not held in high regard by healthcare professionals as it is often contracted out to private companies where there tends to be a ‘one size fits all’ approach and a perhaps over-inflated opinion about the predictive powers of stress testing. This chapter on Coronary Scoring aims to help adjust the balance by focusing on why heart screening should be considered in those that may benefit the most. It provides people who have health concerns with enough information to make an informed decision about having themselves checked over, without necessarily having a formal specialist consultation.

    These manuals are also designed to help patients get involved in ‘smarter medicine’: fewer low risk patients should need to actually visit a specialist; instead it should be possible to read around a subject written by an expert, select and undergo a screening test where appropriate and then if questions arise, obtain relatively low-cost expert advice by phone. It is hoped this new approach will convince more people to find out whether they or their family have early signs of heart disease so that it can treated/prevented more effectively.

    For people with coronary artery disease, by waiting until symptoms occur, preventative measures will be less effective and it is all to often the case that even the best medical care provides ‘too little too late’

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGreen Pages Publishing
    Release dateSep 9, 2014
    ISBN9781310735905
    Naked Heart: Calcium Scoring
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    Edward Leatham

    Edward Leatham is an interventional Cardiologist based in Guildford Surrey. Having studied Medicine at Cambridge and the London Hospital he started qualified in 1986 and after 5 years of training in internal medicine and Cardiology wrote his MD thesis on coronary disease and Thrombosis.He has been practicing as a consultant interventional cardiologist since 1996 with an interest in coronary imaging to detect heart disease since 2002. Following a plaintiff appeal for more specialist equipment and space in Guildford Royal Surrey NHS Hospital the Heart and Stroke Trust Endeavour (HASTE) was launched by his patient Peter Hutley and the HASTE wing built to provide the people of Surrey with specialist Cardiac Imaging and Cardiac department. In 2012 with the help of Rock star (Queen) Roger Taylor and local lawyer Gerald Bland HASTE Academy was launched as a resource to help raise awareness of common medical conditions linked to heart disease and stroke.

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      Book preview

      Naked Heart - Edward Leatham

      THE NAKED HEART

      CALCIUM SCORING

      Detecting coronary disease before it is too late

      Dr. Edward Leatham FRCP

      Consultant Cardiologist

      ~~~

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright © 2014 by Edward Leatham

      http://ccpatient.com/greenpages/aaakt/

      All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

      First Printing, 2014

      Green Pages® Publishing

      2 Huxley Road

      Guildford Surrey GU2 7RE

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      SMASHWORDS EDITION, LICENSE NOTES. This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

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      Use the unique ‘book book' voucher that was emailed with this guide or alternatively which can be obtained by following instructions on the readers discount page: http://ccpatient.com/greenpages/book-book/

      Dedication

      To my daughter Olivia, who’s happy arrival coincided with the publication of this first book,

      and her wonderful mother

      Table of Contents

      The Naked Heart Series

      Why Coronary Calcium?

      Articles in the Naked Heart Series

      Blog articles, Youtube, DVD and books by this author

      About this book

      Prelude

      Case History

      How Coronary Disease Develops

      So what happens next?

      Stable Angina

      The warning signs that you may have coronary artery disease

      What happens during a heart attack?

      How can coronary artery disease and narrowing be detected?

      What is coronary calcification

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