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tomm2thumbs

(13,297 posts) Sun Apr 3, 2016, 12:46 AM Apr 2016

Medicine and Where It Is Heading is So Amazing - BLOCKAGE GRINDER

It's concept, but what is great is you can already see it is possible, given the nature of today's technology advancements. Hopefully we'll be able to offer these kinds of future technologies to every American, and can make being a citizen of this country an honor and a living testament to freedom and fairness

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Medicine and Where It Is Heading is So Amazing - BLOCKAGE GRINDER (Original Post) tomm2thumbs Apr 2016 OP

OTOH there's the morcellator disaster ... MisterP Apr 2016 #1

I think I remember that issue tomm2thumbs Apr 2016 #2

tissue issue--smashing a tumor to little ungrabbable bits wasn't that good in the long run MisterP Apr 2016 #3

I know they've been working on this concept for over 20 years Warpy Apr 2016 #4

In fact, I had this procedure done in 1991, complications ensued fpublic Apr 2016 #7

If you can't afford the copays and deductibles it's not for you Fumesucker Apr 2016 #5

so, so hostile an attitude of negativity, I wonder how food even can approach that mouth tomm2thumbs Apr 2016 #6

Yep, these medical advances won't be for all of us, just for the Dick Cheney types n/t intrepidity Apr 2016 #8

MisterP

(23,730 posts)

1. OTOH there's the morcellator disaster ...

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Sun Apr 3, 2016, 12:48 AM

Apr 2016

tomm2thumbs

(13,297 posts)

2. I think I remember that issue

Reply to MisterP (Reply #1)

Sun Apr 3, 2016, 12:51 AM

Apr 2016

did they figure out if that was operator error or machine related?

MisterP

(23,730 posts)

3. tissue issue--smashing a tumor to little ungrabbable bits wasn't that good in the long run

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Sun Apr 3, 2016, 12:57 AM

Apr 2016

Warpy

(111,305 posts)

4. I know they've been working on this concept for over 20 years

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Sun Apr 3, 2016, 02:14 AM

Apr 2016

and run into problem after problem, like sending showers of grit downstream to plug small vessels or going through vessel walls.

fpublic

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7. In fact, I had this procedure done in 1991, complications ensued

Reply to Warpy (Reply #4)

Mon Apr 4, 2016, 01:26 PM

Apr 2016

It was likely different hardware supported by a different vendor, but the procedure was the same, essentially a roto-rooter via coronary catheter.

In my case, the complication was a small injury to the artery wall (coronary dissection) that prolonged my stay on the cardiac unit by several days. It required a 2nd catheterization to verify that the vessel healed. During one of my two catheterizations, they did a standard balloon procedure which the fancy atherectomy catheter (that's the roto-rooter) was supposed to replace.