Each year, approximately one million people in the US will suffer from acute myocardial infarction (AMI), or heart attack, caused by diseases of the circulatory system. Of these victims, 40% will have resulting abnormalities that require immediate intervention; yet over half of this group never receives any aggressive treatment, either because of absolute or relative contraindications to current available therapies.
Perhaps even more startling are the figures for stroke: among the 500,000 annual stroke victims, about one third die before receiving any treatment. Eighty percent of all strokes are thromboembolic,...
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