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Kevin Smith hospitalized after massive heart attack
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| Jon_Snow |
Two words come to mind:
“Snowball” and “36” |
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| Jon_Snow |
| quote: | Originally posted by ControlFreak18
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In a row?
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| Silky Johnson |
| Was just talking about his size the other day, wondering when this was gonna happen. 100% blockage of the LAD? He's lucky he survived! |
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| ControlFreak18 |
| One would think 100% blockage would mean he doesn’t make it to the hospital. From your experience, how could he have been standing/performing with even 90% blockage? |
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| Silky Johnson |
| Collateral circulation. Over time, in a stressed heart with blocked vessels, the heart circumvents or develops new pathways for blood flow. But of course, all that does it buy a little more time before the inevitable happens. The reason an LAD infarct is usually lethal is because the left anterior descending artery supplies a critical bundle of nerve fibres with blood flow; stop blood flow, stop nerve innervation, stop heart. But yeah, he would have survived because being such a ing slob for so long he likely had enough collateral circulation to sustain him until he got treatment. |
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| ControlFreak18 |
| So if you have coronary artery disease you should just let yourself go to buy some time? |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| I obviously don't wish any ill on the guy, and hopefully he can recover and make the necessary lifestyle changes. But me is he a ty film-maker. I used to live with a guy who adored Kevin Smith, and I ended up seeing the majority of his films. Absolute amateurism, for the most part. |
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| ControlFreak18 |
| Always been more of a fan of his standup than his films, clerks notwithstanding. |
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| Silky Johnson |
| quote: | Originally posted by ControlFreak18
So if you have coronary artery disease you should just let yourself go to buy some time? |
Lol of course not. Collateral circulation is just one factor, albeit a very important one. |
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| ControlFreak18 |
| That’s really interesting that the body will do that. Kind of has its own redundancies built in. |
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