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I'd like to comment on the recent Boston Globe article on surgeons' outbursts and also on Maggie Mahar's post, Surgeons and Other Physicians: A Cultural Divide. Both seem to be painting surgeons as the ogres or bullies of the medical community. I'd like to think that I am neither. There are better examples of surgeons than the Alex Baldwin character in the movie Malice.
I agree it is not good form or good for the patient for these outbursts to occur, but generalizing to the point that most of your readers would think that 90% or more of surgeons behave this way is wrong. I have never thrown any equipment and rarely gotten angry to point of raising my voice or screaming in the OR. Each time I did, the nurse told me I was right.
I have witnessed some of the examples given in the article. Yes, those surgeons should be counseled and most likely should even be required to go to anger management classes. BUT maybe the reason for their anger should also be sought.
Was the faulty equipment putting the patient at risk? It is very frustrating to try three pair of scissors before you get one that will cut tissue or to have the electrocautery machine not work so the circulating nurse (bless her) has to go find one that does. Perhaps the hospital is at fault for not updating and replacing defective instruments and equipment.
Did the surgeon have to finally say "no more" to extraneous people entering the room? I have done that a few times. Someone comes in looking for a piece of equipment stored in the room you are working in (why wasn't it taken to the other room before my surgery got started?). Someone comes in to ask where such and such is (usually a new person who hasn't been properly oriented). My tolerance is such that I can take several (justified) interruptions in one case, but there is always a tipping point. Raising my voice to get the crew who is supposed to be helping me with my case refocused is my way of dealing with it, not throwing things. Still I would prefer to not have the issue.
Did the surgeon have to ask the nurse (or another crew person) to make their personal calls later? I have had to do this a few times, especially now that everyone has a cell phone. I try to be considerate when that person has a loved one in the hospital and are trying to get updates. Still, if they can't focus on their work (someone else's loved one) then maybe they should have taken the day off.
Those are just a few examples. I agree that we should never throw anything in the OR, but I do expect the equipment the hospital provides to work. I do expect the personnel they use to be professional and properly trained. I think of myself as part of the team, but that means we ALL have to put the patient first and work together.
Now let me give you some better examples of surgeons
- Dr. Eli Blumfield (played by Alan Arkin) from the movie The Doctor. The one that William Hurt's character picked to do his surgery. He was not only a great surgeon, but a good person.
- Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce (Alan Alda) from MASH, don't recall ever seeing him throw anything in the OR. He mostly directed his anger at the policy makers, not the OR staff or patients.
- BJ Hunnicutt (Mike Farrell) from MASH, a gentle soul who missed his wife and daughter. He didn't disrupt the OR with temper tantrums either.
- Sherman T Potter (Harry Morgan) from MASH, who kept Hawkeye and the others in line. A good surgeon and administrator.
- Dr Richard McCarthy (real-life orthopedic spine surgeon) who was featured in an episode of Extreme Surgery back in 2004. I was a medical student when I first meet him at Arkansas Children's Hospital. He is a very good surgeon and a gentle man. He is very highly regarded by all -- administration, nursing staff, colleagues, patients, etc. I tried to find the episode link so you could see him in action, but failed.
- Dr. Sanjay Gupta, neurosurgeon and CNN correspondent. Though I have never been in an OR with him, he doesn't seem as if he would be the type to throw tantrums.
- Dr Bruce Campbell, ENT and fellow blogger. I have not been in the OR with him either, but you get the sense of a someone who is respectful and civil when reading his posts.
- David A. Kappel, MD, a plastic surgeon in Wheeling, WV. I was influenced by him as a general surgery resident. Someone who is very good at what his does, treats his OR crew well, and is a wonderful human being.
- Dr Dale Morris who was a general surgeon here in Little Rock, AR for years. He has retired and is missed. He was/is a very kind and skilled surgeon who always treated everyone well.
Let me also say that I am blessed to have had several good nurses and OR scrubs over the years teach me how to work as a team. To name a few -- Jeannette Murphy, Vivian Mitchell, Joe Roe, Becky Bennett, and on and on.
You may also want to read this article from the WSJ and it's comments from last month on "Better Hospital Manners by Mandate".


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4 And this is the cause why Joshua did circumcise: All the people that came out of Egypt, that were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came out of Egypt.
5 Now all the people that came out were circumcised: but all the people that were born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Egypt, them they had not circumcised.
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7 And their children, whom he raised up
8 And it came to pass, when they had done circumcising all the people, that they abode in their places in the camp, till they were
9 And the Lord said unto Joshua, This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you. Wherefore the name of the place is called
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"No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it."
Sounds like John Adams didn't totally enjoy his time as the second president.
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This could probably be the secret thought of any president, but it was actually uttered by Michael Douglas as Andrew Shepherd in "American President."
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"My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes."
Ronald Reagan made this joke in 1984 as he was doing sound check for a radio address.
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President Arnold Schwarzenegger in "The Simpsons Movie" says this right before he unwittingly decides to put the town of Springfield under a glass dome.
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"People say, how can I help on this war against terror? How can I fight evil? You can do so by mentoring a child; by going into a shut-in's house and say I love you."
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"I want them to see how we protect our citizens. We will not put up with racism or xenophobia. If this is where it's going to start, this is where it's going to stop."
No, it's not Donald Trump. It's Dennis Haysbert, playing President David Palmer in "24."
Question 20 of 30
"I can't ever remember sitting around and saying, 'Gosh, let's hurry up and get these debates going, that'll win it for me.' Nope."
We didn't realize that George H.W. Bush was so insecure in his debating skills.
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"It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training."
Ulysses S. Grant might have something to say to a few of the people in the 2016 presidential race.
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"As to the Presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it."
Martin van Buren, echoing the sentiments of quite a few former presidents in this quiz.
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"We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests. Perhaps it's fate that today is the Fourth of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom... Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution... but from annihilation."
OK, the end of that quote probably put it over the top. It's Bill Pullman as Thomas Whitmore in "Independence Day."
Question 24 of 30
"Eight years was awesome, and I was famous and I was powerful. But I have no desire for fame and power anymore."
Former president George W. Bush, ready to kick back and live anonymously.
Question 25 of 30
"If I had to name my greatest strength, I guess it would be my humility. Greatest weakness, it's possible that I'm a little too awesome.''
Barack Obama made this tongue-in-cheek remark at the annual Al Smith dinner in 2008.
Question 26 of 30
"Maybe we could put Afghanistan on eBay? Get about 10 bucks for that?"
No, this is not a terrible blunder made on a live mic by an unassuming commander in chief. It's the only remotely family-friendly quote we could find from President Selina Meyer of "Veep," played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
Question 27 of 30
"There are certain things you should expect from a president. I ought to care more about you than I do about me... I ought to care more about what's right than I do about what's popular. I ought to be willing to give this whole thing up for something I believe in."
This is Kevin Kline in "Dave," as a presidential impersonator thrust into the presidency.
Question 28 of 30
"The president is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think."
That's President James A. Garfield, feeling out of touch.
Question 29 of 30
"Being president is like running a cemetery: You've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening."
Bill Clinton said this in 1995, at the end of his first term.
Question 30 of 30
"I love that woman. I love her more than sharks love blood."
This one is obviously George Washington. Just kidding — it's Frank Underwood again.


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There is a story up at the Urban Land Institute about an increasing number of cities filing for bankruptcy. It's worth a read, though not particularly for the all-to-predictable conclusion (private sector partnerships to the rescue!) nor for the quoted commentary (some of it is far more useful and insightful than others), but rather to simply understand that this is a serious issue and the beginning of the end. Not the end for cities, but for the end of the broken manner in which we've built cities for the last 50-80 years. It takes a few generations for flaws to reveal themselves as fissures until ultimately the cracks hasten, accelerate, and splinter until everything falls into a dust heap.
I've been following Stockton, CA's issues for a while now as I have Valencia, Spain's, as well as Harrisburg, PA's. I'm originally from Harrisburg and their demise is something that's been coming for a while now. Just like all the rest, despite the blips of high times that papier-mache over the faulty foundations.
Dumb people, despite their qualifications and accreditations, cite things like the bust in the housing market as the problem with places like Stockton. Sad day. Except it wasn't the bust that was the problem. It was the boom, that displaced and destabilized cities into something lacking the connective tissue of highly complex ecosystems, anti-city. Sprawl.
"That ringing in your ears? That [high-pitched] eeeeeee... That's the sound of the cells dying."
Harrisburg is a city of 50,000 people. It's also a state seat. It's boundaries are very small and its major industry is tax exempt, obv. Most of the people that work in said state seat, live outside of city proper. Because they can. Because said state built an infrastructure availing housing opportunities at an ever increasing edge, chewing up evermore agricultural land. There is no mass transit available, and like most increasingly sprawling and disconnected places, it wouldn't make a difference. The infrastructure is built in a way that mass transit would never be as "convenient" as driving. Striving for "convenience" makes for a whole lot of inconvenience.
The metropolitan area of Harrisburg, PA is about 650,000 people. And that doesn't even include metropolitan York, PA nor metro Lancaster, PA. A triangle, all about 30 minutes apart. Or less than it is from Dallas to the majority of its suburbs. Combine those three metropolitan areas and Harrisburg, a city (tax base) of 50,000, as its primary job center, has to support a super-metro area of about 1.3 million people.
It's all too easy to point to single elements as the root cause. In Harrisburg, it's an absurdly expensive and mismanaged incinerator. But these are generally only the straw that broke that camels back. A mistake made when blinded when riding high. Or similarly, these singular objects are the cherry on the top of a much broader foundation when they're considered the cause of all the good in a city's revitalization. Like Bilbao, which I've shown over and over, their revitalization began fifteen years prior to the Guggenheim. Serious economists and urbanists know that. Few are actually serious.
We've built our cities to fail. These privatization and partnership solutions are acts of desperation and short-term at best. If they're not fiscally sustainable for the commonwealth, the private sector will surely see their way to the door once they clean up on the initial hand-out and handover of public commons. There is little to no margin in the fiscally unstable and unsustainable. But there is plenty when its given over to you at first before you can turn it around and divest.
Most cities simply don't have an organization in place to balance the cost burden of infrastructure for a region with the limited tax base of city propers. And even those that do are often holding on by a thread if the core city isn't growing, metropolitan planning organizations too often support the metro region as a whole rather than a collection of centers. Exasperating the problem with same old policies. The MPO is simply now the brain of the formerly headless parasite sucking the life out of the city. Sure, it's fat and happy. Until it bursts with the blood and viscera of its unwitting victim.
Have I told you that the City of Dallas grew by the least amount of people since the 1880 census? Not percentage. No. Actual people.
Harrisburg, and cities like it, possibly need to be taken over by the state it resides in. Unfortunately, that won't solve it, as state legislatures will simply cut services as an act of punishment and "budget balancing." The underlying problem is that you can't balance the budget with an imbalanced physical environment. Too much infrastructural burden and too little tax base. The infrastructure we've built is simply the straws sticking out of the neck for the parasites to feed more easily.
The horrible and true irony is that ultimately, this hurts those suburbs too. And they can't even really be called suburbs anymore, because they aren't lesser parts of a greater whole. Instead, they've subjugated the host organism, like the machines did to humans in the matrix. Kept alive as office parks or general entertainment/stadium venues, just enough to keep the heart beating.
That sound you hear is simply the emergency call to the triage staff at the hospital of cities, the host organism, flatlining. It's time to keep them alive. But not TOO alive if you're to listen to any of the so-called experts. Just enough to keep sucking the life out of it. Until it's some other generation's problem.


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Skip to comments.Virginia Democrats renew call for Cuccinelli to resign
Posted on 04/30/2013 6:11:29 AM PDT by COBOL2Java
RICHMOND Virginia Democrats renewed their demands Monday that Attorney General Kenneth T. Cuccinelli resign after the Republican gubernatorial candidate belatedly disclosed about $13,000 worth of gifts on Friday that he claimed he forgot to note in four years worth of economic disclosure reports.
They were not as insistent, however, that their own nominee, Terry McAuliffe, match Mr. Cuccinellis complete income tax disclosure earlier this month with one of his own.
State Sen. A. Donald McEachin and Delegate David J. Toscano responded in a conference call to Mr. Cuccinellis revelation Friday afternoon that he failed to report five gifts from 2009 through last year. He spoke to a handful of mostly print journalists who had agreed not to broadcast any audio or video recordings of the conference and use them only to augment the accuracy of their own notes.
Three of them were from Jonnie Williams, the CEO of troubled nutritional supplement maker Star Scientific and a political contributor to Mr. Cuccinelli. They included a $3,000 vacation stay and $1,500 Thanksgiving retreat and dinner at Mr. Williams Smith Mountain Lake vacation home.
Mr. Cuccinelli also made a nominal revision to his 2011 filing to show that $6,711 worth of nutritional supplements he received that year came from Star Scientific, not from Mr. Williams as he had previously reported.
The annual reports listing their business interests, assets, honoraria and gifts are required of elected officials each January under Virginia law. A deliberate violation is a misdemeanor, but an unintended error or omission is not an offense.
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why do these jackasses continue to accept gifts? A bottle of pinot is okay but nothing more. pay your own freight. loser pols
It's more tangled when you are friends with the person.
yeah? I don't give my friends 13K "gifts"
Really - unless you're a democRat, you're not entitled as an elected politician to freesht!
Friends - even rich ones - do not typically buy such lavish gifts for one another.
If you let your friend stay at your beach house, that is $3000. If you invite him for Thanksgiving, that is $1500 (dinner and staying at the house).
It's a little different from being gifted a Rolex.
Friends don't have to account for the comparable cost of staying at each other's houses.
I have a friend with a place at SML. When I stay there, big deal. If I was a politician, I would have to account for the cost of staying at a comparable location and report it.
oh bull, I highly doubt they are talking about being invited to a house party for Thanksgiving. And as a stinking Captain in the JAG we had a "briefing" about not accepting gifts. So, the ass should know to avoid the appearance of impropriety, if he wants to go to the beach he should pay his freight, that is what I am saying.
You should pay your freight at SML whatever the dickens that is, your friend has expenses that are fixed on that vaca house.
Vitamins???? You are worried about someone accepting Vitamins?
hell yeah I have gone on trips with friends and we tallied up and split the expenses evenly.
He was invited to Thanksgiving dinner IIRC. They have to report that. It's not like he got a Rolex and a bag of diamonds.
just a second ago you said it was the same as being gifted a Rolex.
Look, if he is invited to someone's house for Thanksgiving AND THAT PERSON DOESN'T BENEFIT BY GETTING A GOVERNMENT CONTRACT BLESSED BY HIM shorthly thereafter, no biggie.
sheesh, people, it's not that hard to be honest
if the nation is to survive, we must insist upon HONOR in our leaders. At this time in our history, there is very little of that in local, county, state, or federal government. Very little.
Smith Mountain Lake is a big, man-made lake that extends across Franklin and Bedford counties in VA. It was formed when Appalachian Power Company built a dam for power generation. It's quite popular in these parts.
Did everyone miss this line in the story?
"They were not as insistent, however, that their own nominee, Terry McAuliffe, match Mr. Cuccinellis complete income tax disclosure earlier this month with one of his own."The only reason they demanded Cuccinelli's tax records was so they could go dumpster diving for dirt. Voila! They found something! And now they can sit back and let all the Conservatives chew Cuccinellis legs off, because WE demand HONOR. We demand PURITY. And the RATs sit back and laugh at us.
Same old story. Republican thinks he's going to escape scrutiny by the dems' oppo research machine.
I like Cuccinelli, but he's the latest in a long line of GOPers who don't understand the fact that the dems are far, far more effective in digging up dirt on opponents.
And I agree with the other posters here who say politicians need to cease with the gift-taking.
This doesn't look very good and could possibly sink Cuccinelli. Is it too late for Bolling to replace him?
VA Republicans rarely win much of anything other than U.S. House seats anyway. I never get enthusiastic about some potential chance to win in VA. The GOP always seems to leave us flat there. But, MD, they can't even find a serious candidate in statewide races.
Sad thing is, gift-giving notwithstanding, we'll never be able to persuade good people to get into politics. Who the heck would want the anal exam they'll get from the likes of DemocRAT dumpster divers? Much less what the Chicago crowd would put their family through?
All we're going to get now is a kakocracy.
Bolling? Wouldn't surprise me if Bolling aided in the oppo research...
I agree, Bolling is a snake. But he's still our snake, and if Cuccinelli is mortally wounded we need to do what is necessary to keep TerryMac from being Governor.
It isn't fair and it is a double standard, of course, but it's the way it is in today's political world. The 'Rats, of course, get a pass. In fact, when a 'Rat breaks the law, it helps them. People think they're "cool", or "a playah".
A sad truth indeed. I'm sure the long knives are out for Ted Cruz as well, but in his case, the RATs can probably just sit back and let the McCains eat one of their own. :-/
Very few honorable people would even make it to the candidacy...
"just a second ago you said it was the same as being gifted a Rolex"
Oh and here is what I said
Its a little different from being gifted a Rolex.
He should tell the Dem's:
"Let's see your financial disclosures!"
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It's the history of politics and politicians
So true, so true.
Clinton machine 2016 bump for later...
Virginia has pretty weak ethics rules. They rely simply on full disclosure. That way, the voters can decide whether they think you are being influenced or not.
There has been some push to change this, but neither party really cares to do so. And yes, even some of our "good" guys tend to be gifted a lot more than the ordinary folks.
I can't imagine anybody would pay $6000 for supplements, so I guess this is a case where the company has excess stock and sends it out to people, and it just has a very high retail value, and that's what you file.
Still, it would be nice if our politicians just said no.
And of course, in Virgina even a willful violation of this law is a misdemeanor, like running a red light. If it is inadvertent, there is no penalty at all for late disclosure.
The democrats have been working over time with the media trying to take down Ken. They've opened a second front with McDonnell, leaking information about an FBI probe that the liberal unethical Obama administration won't "confirm or deny", thus leaving it hanging. But again, if you don't hang around with people giving you gifts, it is harder to launch unfounded accusations at you.
Spot on. What's the incentive for a successful conservative to leave his comfortable six figure job/life and be dragged through the dirt, not only by the opposition, but by hyperpure conservatives who've never run for nor won a seat in their lives.
Utter goofs. If this is all they've got on Cucinelli he's still a great candidate. Sometimes I suspect many of the purists are plants. Their entire goal is to whip up the base against a good candidate.
Why don't they protest McAuliffe's entire career as a crony capitalist and start a campaign to force him to open his records? He get's a free pass. That's dumb.
It's the regular conservative circular firing squad at work. Grow up.
I strain myself to find any concern for this oversight. Senses when is it the government's business to know of every private gift i receive.
You want to know it for politics well they know it now time to move to actual issues of concern for Virginia.
"If you let your friend stay at your beach house, that is $3000. If you invite him for Thanksgiving, that is $1500 (dinner and staying at the house).
Wow I've received some huge gifts in the last few years in that case...
"Our people have to learn a simple fact, and that is that they will be under scrutiny 24/7 by the 'Rat dirt machine. So even an appearance of impropriety will get built up into a major scandal. Rule number one is, don't accept "gifts", don't accept "free money" for personal use. Pay your way and earn what you get."
I think we need to aproche this ongoing double standard in a different way. Face up to it head on and call them hypocrites.
So true...
When my hubs was in a position to get compted for a $1500/night hotel room in New Orleans for three nights, we had to say no thanks and pay for it ourselves because of concerns for future investigations... and we could ill-afford the expense.
Hey, JAG...
Hubs was a surface Navy CAPT at the time...
We didn't get the brief but knew enough not to go for the comp...
"We can certainly call them on their double standard and I agree we should. But we should also be aware that our failings will be magnified beyond proportion so we should seek to minimize those. If we dont hand our enemies a sword they will be less likely to chop us up."
I agree, but do you really think there are prefect men out there let alone enough of them to fill our political needs?
Good for you. But if a houseguest of mine insisted on paying me for my hospitality I'd consider it an insult.
nope it was my friends ultra nice second house in Scottsdale and a bunch of us girls went and we kept track of all expenses and split them. no free lunch, "insult" is silly
What tacky friends you have. When I invite people to come and stay with me, I pay, when they invite me to go stay with them, they pay. I guess you can't help your world view since you have such classless friends.
If we dont hand our enemies a sword they will be less likely to chop us up.It's more like the Dems hand conservatives the sword then watch as they chop up their own candidates.
folk off loser
Guess that's wh I sleep at night, not padding my expense account not accepting "gifts" and other slushy activities
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Restricted Nifty Pump
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A fresh twist on the timeless Mary Jane, this sweet little pump from Restricted will update your wardrobe in a feminine way. The practical heel height and ribbon lacing make the Nifty a great way to comfortably dress up your outfit.
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An intensely volumizing mascara for bigger, fuller lashes.
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Bigger is better, and with this bestselling, volumizing mascara, you'll get big, bodacious, outrageously full lashes. The vitamin-enriched, clump-resistant formula deepens, darkens and thickens while the curvy, hourglass-shaped brush evenly coats lashes from root to tip.
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Friday, March 2, 2012
Lupus and Cardiac Disease Part II
As mentioned in my previous post about heart disease and lupus, I decided to do a little research to find out why lupus patients are at such an increased risk of cardiac disease. I knew a little bit, probably just enough to be dangerous, but I decided to find out more.
The good news is that the answers I was looking for were readily available online, which was oh-so-convenient for this research-averse blogger. However, in order to obtain what I considered a satisfactory answer, I had to pull from about five or six different sources. And the fact that finding those answers took some digging explained a lot.
It explained why I was a little bit muddy on the subject. After 11 years with lupus, it's not that I didn't know anything about lupus and the heart. It was just that, up until now, most of the information I came across online, in books, or in pamphlets stressed the traditional risk factors as the primary concerns for people with lupus. Things like keeping to a healthy weight, watching your cholesterol and blood pressure, and staying active were mentioned in almost every "lupus and the heart" article I'd ever come across. And of course that advice is sound. But what it mistakenly led me to conclude was this: since, as lupus patients, our risk to those traditional factors are increased (due to debilitating pain that keep us from being active, or steroid therapy that causes weight gain), if I wasn't showing signs of those traditional risk factors, then I was pretty much in the clear.
Well - I should have known better. After all, the primary concern of my pulmonologist during the first 6 months after I was diagnosed was that the inflammation and fluid in my lungs was migrating over to my heart. Good news is that the fluid never got there...and because it didn't, I kind of dismissed the heart concerns.
But I shall dismiss no longer. Here are the reasons why lupus patients are more prone to cardiac disease:
*ANTI-BODIES: Many lupus patients have antibodies that attack proteins that help regulate blood vessels. The presence of those guys can increase the risk of heart attack, stroke, and heart disease.
*INFLAMMATION: Chronic inflammation, when found around the heart, in the muscle tissue, or in the inner lining of the heart, can interfere with the heart's ability to function properly. Interestingly, inflammation in the muscle tissue can also be caused by infection, which as lupus patients we are prone to, particularly when on immunosuppressive drugs.
*MEDICINE: Corticosteroids, with prolonged use, can be real trouble makers. They can cause increased risk for diabetes, elevated cholesterol, and hypertension - all of which can contribute to heart disease.
*KIDNEYS: Hypertension (which leads to heart disease) can also be caused by kidney disease, which many of us have. Dinged again!
*CHOLESTEROL- We usually think of HDL as the good guys, and LDL as the bad guys. But it turns out that abnormal, pro-inflammatory HDL (piHDL) can exist in people with lupus and other autoimmune diseases, likely contributing to atherosclerosis. In fact, the presence of piHDL may serve as a biomarker to identify women with lupus who have the highest risk of cardiovascular disease so more intense preventive steps can be initiated. (That is GOOD news!)
The links below can give you details on each of the issues outlined above, and many thanks to the sources listed. Note that by no means is the information provided meant to say that as lupus patients, we're doomed. That's hardly the case!
It's just important to know that if there are several factors inherent to lupus that we cannot control, it's that much more important to do something about the factors that we CAN control. Nutrition, exercise, healthy lifestyle, low stress (to control disease activity AND blood pressure)...it all adds up, ideally to a healthy heart!
Lupus Foundation - Heart Disease is a Major Complication of Lupus
Pittsburgh Magazine - Dr. Susan Manzi: Unmasking the Great Impersonator
Lupus Foundation - Chat Transcript with Dr. Susan Manzi
Alliance for Lupus Research - Cardiovascular Disease and Lupus
Lupus Foundation - The Cardiopulmonary System
Rx PG News - Pro-inflammatory HDL biomarker for Lupus Atherosclerosis
Posted by Sara Gorman at 8:00 AM
Labels: blood work, heart, kidney, lifestyle, living well, medication, prednisone, research, sleep, weight loss, work
2 comments:
- Liz said...
Thank you for posting this! I've never researched this topic in depth, but the information I have read just talked about the normal risk factors. Since I'm a healthy weight, exercise regularly, and have great cholesterol and BP, I thought this really didn't apply to me. Your research is so helpful - thank you!
- March 2, 2012 at 9:27 PM
- Sara Gorman said...
I'm so glad I wasn't alone! That's always the way I thought about it too, but it seems there are a few more issues for us to consider. Good news is that we have those other risk factors on our side. :)
Thanks for commenting!
- March 7, 2012 at 5:17 PM
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