HE100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Mendelian Inheritance, Leukemia, Antioxidant

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Thrombolysis: reperfusion therapy: ensure coninued blood low, immediate treatment for blocked artery, injecion of medicaion (tpa) to dissolve blood clot. Restore blood low prevent or reduce issue damage: ideally administered within 1-3 hours of event. Up to 12 hours to reduce morbidity and mortality. Secion of a blocked artery replaced with healthy blood vessel from paients leg, arm or chest. Improves blood low to heart muscle: valve replacement. Damaged or poorly funcioning heart valves replaced. Repair or minimally invasive procedures also available: heart transplant. Failing heart replaced with a donor heart. 2-3 week hospital stay: treatment trade-ofs: surgery vs. other treatments, prevenion, detecion and early intervenion is key. Leading cause of death among canadians with 29. 9: heart disease second with 19. 7% Males age adjusted rate: slight decrease. Females age adjusted rate: slight increase. Prostate, breast, lung, colorectal: 52% of new cases. 1 in 8 men will develop prostate cancer in older aged men.

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