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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/8b7bfa15-0ff6-43ea-b844-32bb43d5cc0e/F9348953-31C0-4351-8577-200BA9672BEF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080819/ap_on_he_me/med_wrist_to_heart_8" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080819/ap_on_he_me/med_wrist_to_heart_8" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080819/ap_on_he_me/med_wrist_to_heart_8"><H1> <DIV class="source"> <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/brand/SIG=br2v03;_ylt=AiuEkDnqYwC9wBvY.7rR7.ta24cA/*http://www.ap.org" linkindex="33"><IMG width="106" height="27" border="0" alt="AP" src="http://l.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/nws/p/ap_logo_106.png" /></A> </DIV> New study backs angioplasty through the wrist </H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080819/ap_on_he_me/med_wrist_to_heart_8"><P> WASHINGTON - The best path to a clogged heart may be through the wrist. About a million artery-clearing angioplasties are performed in the United States each year, and the usual route is to thread a tube to the heart through an artery in the groin. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080819/ap_on_he_me/med_wrist_to_heart_8"><P>Now a major study shows going through the wrist instead can significantly lower the risk of bleeding — without the discomfort of lying flat for hours while the incision site seals up.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080819/ap_on_he_me/med_wrist_to_heart_8"><P>Just one in 100 angioplasties is done via the wrist, and the approach isn't for everyone. But Monday's study promises to spur more specialists to use the method.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080819/ap_on_he_me/med_wrist_to_heart_8"><P>"In experienced hands, it can be done more," said Dr. Sidney Smith, <SPAN id="lw_1219146457_0" class="yshortcuts">heart disease</SPAN> chief at the <SPAN id="lw_1219146457_1" class="yshortcuts">University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill</SPAN> and a past president of the <SPAN id="lw_1219146457_2" class="yshortcuts">American Heart Association</SPAN>, who wasn't part of the study. "This approach, when done by experienced operators, has advantages."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080819/ap_on_he_me/med_wrist_to_heart_8">The wrist method cut the bleeding risk by nearly 60 percent:</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F9348953-31C0-4351-8577-200BA9672BEF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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