Decades Worth of the Best Healthy Heart Care

You need a healthy heart. Care treatments for your heart have advanced in this decade and we now have the best treatment for heart disease, angina, and artherosclerosis that we have ever had. These are the best advances in heart care in this decade.

1. Drug Eluting Stents. Stents have long been a standard treatment for blocked arteries. The problem in the past has been the failure of these stents due to scarring and treatment drugs. According to the Mayo Clinic new drug eluding stents help to prevent scarring and resist the failures that treatment drugs can bring.

2. Off Pump Beating Surgery. Surgeons now have the ability to perform surgery without the assistance of a heart lung machine. According to the American Heart Association patients recover more quickly than the traditional open heart surgery patients.

3. Electro Physiology. We are learning more and more about what makes the old ticker tick. The Heart Rhythm Society states that mapping of the electrical triggers of the heart are allowing the treatment of irregular heart beats and irregular rhythms.

4. Advanced Heart Tests. Tests such as the Berkley Heart lab are giving doctors earlier and earlier detections of problems patients may experience with the heart. It goes without saying that if you can predict a heart attack sooner then the more likely you are to survive a heart attack through prevention.

5. Combined Drug Treatments. We are now in the second real decade for the use of statin type drugs. Drugs like Vytorin which is a combination of ezetimibe and simvastatin. Luciano Rossetti, head of Merck & Co.'s global science strategy, says the company has enrolled nearly 15,000 of 18,000 patients for a trial designed to show, once and for all, whether ezetimibe works.

6. Modified Cox Maze. According to the National Institute of Health the Modified Cox maze is a surgical procedure to regulate heart rhythms in which the surgeon inserts a device to block irregular electrical signals that will cause the heart to misfire.

7. CTA. Health First Imaging declares that CTA is a painless, non-invasive way to capture incredibly detailed, precise 3D images of your heart and blood vessels. This procedure not only gives the doctor a look at the heart but also the lungs, thoracic cavity, and chest wall.

8. Nano Medicine. We are still in the early stages of nano medicine but at least we are talking about. Nano medicine involves the use of super small particles that treat various problems in the heart. The Nano Medicine Center states that Nano medicine may be used in the future to help grow new heart vessels, treat irregular heart rhythms, and more.

9. Time Critical Diagnosis System. Hospitals are racing to treat heart attack patients and rightly so. The Missouri Department of Health enacted legislation that encourages faster treatment of heart attack patients.

10. Imaging and Radiology. Scanning procedures are giving doctors the ability to look deeper inside the human body than ever before. Doctors are now able to use scans such as the Bronson Heart Scan to determine long term risks for heart attacks and heart disease.

Technology is great and it is allowing us to live longer and longer with a healthy heart. Care procedures will continue to advance throughout the next decade opening doors and windows that are unimaginable to us now.