Go Red for Women - 2012

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Give your heart c elebrity sta-tus in y our lif e at the annual Cedar Valley G o Red for Women Luncheon on Nov. 2.

This year’s event is from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the F ive Sul-livan Br others C onven-tion C enter, pr esented by Allen H ospital. Regional spons or is University of I owa Heart and Vascular Center.

“Heart dis-ease i sn’t j ust a man’s pr oblem,” says event chairwoman Carolyn Hamrock, V ision M edia-Ser-vices pr esident. “It’s the No. 1 killer of w omen. A wareness is

needed and with y our help , w e can make a diff erence.”

There will be a fashion show by Jennifer’s, spe ak-

ers, br eakout s es-sions and vendors.Cost is $40 , w hich

includes the luncheon and all activities.

Table spons orship opportunities ar e available.

Register or donate online at W aterloo-

IAGoRedForWomen.org, or send registrations to 1035

N. C enter P oint R oad, Suit e B , Hiawatha 52233.

Contact C ory F ord at (319) 215-0633 or C [email protected] for volunteer information.

Go R ed F or W omen enc our-ages a wareness of the is sue of women and he art dis ease, and also action to save more lives.

The movement harnesses the energy, passion and power women ha ve t o b and t ogether and c ollectively wipe out he art disease.

It challeng es them t o kno w their risk f or he art dis ease and take action to reduce their per-sonal risk. It also gives them the

tools they need to lead a he art-healthy life.

In 2010, the American Heart Association s et a str ategic goal of r educing de ath and dis abil-ity from c ardiovascular dis ease and strokes by 20 percent while improving the c ardiovascular health of all Americ ans b y 20 percent by the year 2020.

In 200 3, the N ational H eart, Lung and Blood Institut e, the Americ an H eart As so-

ciation a nd o ther or ganiza-tions c ommitted t o w omen’s health j oined t ogether t o r aise awareness of women and heart disease.

The NHLBI intr oduced the red dress as a national symbol for w omen and he art dis ease awareness, and the Americ an Heart Association adopted this s ymbol t o cr eate s ynergy among all or ganizations c om-mitted to fi ghting this cause.

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Become a BetterU with this free 12-week online makeover that can save your life. Sign up at GoRedFor-Women.org/Better U.

Support other heart disease fi ghters and survivors. Connect with women who’ve had similar heart dis-

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ease experiences and give or receive emotional support as you fi ght heart disease together at GoRedForWomen.org/HeartMatch.

Go Red Heart Checkup. Go Red’s online tool that provides a 10-year, personal heart disease risk assess-ment at GoRedForWomen.org/Heart-Checkup.

Get involved. Find Go Red for Women events like the one happen-

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ing in the Cedar Valley on Nov. 2 at the Five Sullivan Brothers Convention Center.

Real women just like you. Read stories from real women who struggle and live with heart-health issues at GoRedForWomen.org/stories.

Go Red Por Tu Corazon. Access in-formation in Spanish and learn about Go Red efforts in the Hispanic com-munity at GoRedForCorazon.org.

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Allen radial heart caths make patients feel better fasterWATERLOO — C omfort and

convenience ar en’t w ords mo st people associate with he art cath-eterization. E ven though Allen Hospital’s c atheterization lab s do about 3,400 procedures per y ear, it isn’ t a pr ocess p atients e xpect to be r elatively quick or e asy. But that’s chang ed e ver sinc e Allen introduced r adial c atheterization — a procedure that typically helps patients feel better faster with less chance of complications.

Heart catheterization — cath for short — let s c ardiologists as sess the condition of the he art and it s arteries fr om the inside. D octors pass a thin, fl exible tube, or c ath-eter, through an art ery and guide it toward the heart using real-time imaging.

“Heart c atheterization is a remarkable t est bec ause c ardiac catheters do so many things,” said Paula Geise, RN, MSN, director of Allen cardiac services.

A heart catheter measures blood pressure in the he art. It let s c ar-diologists inj ect d ye t o sho w the condition of the he art and it s arteries in sharp detail. When car-diologists fi nd plaque — a w axy substance t hat b uilds u p o ver time — blocking an art ery, c ar-diac c atheters permit f ast, eff ec-tive r epair. A tin y b alloon at the tip of the c atheter infl ates to fl at-ten plaque against the walls of the artery. Then the c atheter plac es a small wir e-mesh grid c alled a stent over the fl attened plaque and expands the st ent. The e xpanded stent holds the art ery open and prevents new plaque build-up. When the c atheter c omes out, the stent remains in place, and the heart has renewed blood supply.

Until recently, most heart caths were done thr ough the f emoral artery in the gr oin, a lar ge art ery with g ood ac cess t o the he art. However, it s siz e r equires special

precautions f ollowing the pr oce-dure. Femoral heart cath patients must r emain fl at on their b acks with a s andbag on their leg f or several hour s aft er the pr ocedure to pr event bleeding. R ecovery is generally routine, but femoral cath patients usuall y c annot r eturn t o work for 15 days.

Radial heart cath patients have a

diff erent experience. Radial c aths are done thr ough an art ery in the wrist. B ecause the r adial art ery is much smaller than the f emoral artery, p atients fi nd r adial c aths more c omfortable and c onve-nient. P atients sit up right aft er the pr ocedure with just a small pressure b andage on their wrist. They f eel bett er. The y c an mo ve

around, order a meal and go home within an hour or t wo. They have less chanc e of c omplications, and they can go back to work in a week.

Allen cardiologists and p atients appreciate the r adial diff erence. Today, 95 per cent of Allen c ardi-ac c ath and st ent pr ocedures ar e done radially. That fi gure is much higher than mo st ho spitals ha ve reached, but it ’s c onsistent with Allen c ardiac c are. Allen belie ves that gi ving p atients a choic e in where the y g o f or he art c are and how t ests ar e perf ormed mak es heart c are e asier and bett er f or patients and families.

Radial catheterization isn’t right for all p atients, but f or mo st, it ’s a mor e c omfortable, c onvenient option Allen H ospital does e very day.

For m ore i nformation a bout radial c aths, visit www .allenhos-pital.org, or call Geise at 235-5115.

“Heart catheterization is a remarkable test because cardiac catheters do so

many things.”Paula Geise, RN, MSN

director of Allen cardiac services

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Woman’s broken heart an unusual but real condition By MELODY PARKER

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WATERLOO — Linda K imball has suff ered a broken heart.

She remembers the exact day — March 2 — and loc ation — sno w-mobiling in Wisconsin. Now she’s recovered, and ther e’s a ne w man in her life, her cardiologist.

“Yes, ther e r eally is a br oken heart syndrome,” said Kimball, 65, of Waterloo. She plans t o attend the Go Red For Women event Nov. 2 at the F ive Sulli van Br others Convention Center.

Broken he art s yndrome is the colloquial name for stress or stress-induced cardiomyopathy or apical ballooning syndrome, according to medical experts. A part of the heart temporarily enlarges and doesn’t pump well, according to the Mayo Clinic website.

Symptoms can be brought on by extreme grief , e xtreme str ess or extreme over-exertion.

Kimball w as s tricken w hile helping her husb and shovel snow to dislodge their sled c aught in a drift.

“I c ouldn’t c atch m y br eath. I thought I w as ha ving a he art

attack. I w as o verdressed f or the weather that w as w armer than I e xpected, and I w as 50 pounds heavier.”

She was naus eous and had no strength. She f elt c ompletely overpowered. H er husb and w as alarmed, and b ack at their c abin, she swallowed a b aby aspirin and laid down.

“I slept perf ectly, but w e w ere still alarmed. The next morning, it was a 4 1/2 hour drive back home. I had total faith that my Lord would get me to safety.”

At a loc al ho spital emer gency room, K imball under went a b at-tery of heart tests.

“I was told that my heart needed more blood than m y he art c ould pump during such e xtreme exer-tion, and it literally defl ated. I was lucky bec ause the doct or tr eat-ing me had studied and writt en a paper on br oken heart syndrome, and he recognized it.”

The c ondition usuall y r everses itself, she s aid, and no w she t akes a daily pill and e xercises regularly. She underwent cardiac rehabilita-tion, too, and has lost 50 pounds.

She also volunteers at a local car-diac rehabilitation clinic.

“I like witnessing other people’s progress. Ther e’s such gr eat s at-isfaction in meeting people and

helping them impr ove and f eel better.

“I’m Bohemian, and sometimes

it t akes a w hack with a t wo-by-four to wake me up , and this w as one.”

Linda Kimball suffered a “broken heart” while shoveling snow. The unusual condition can occur with extreme grief, extreme stress or extreme physical exertion.

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New technology at U of I leads way in heart care advancesBy JENNIFER GOERBIG-CAMPBELL, MD

University of Iowa Heart and Vascular Center cardiologist

IOWA CITY — Of all the or gans in our bodies , w e r ely mo st on our he arts t o k eep us ali ve. Ironically, he art dis ease aff ect s more Americans than any other disease.

When w e think of he art dis-ease, the s cariest and mo st dramatic s cenarios — he art attacks, b ypass sur gery, lif e and death situations — tend to come to mind. The good news is that mor e people ar e li ving with he art dis ease than d ying from it than e ver before, due to advances in research, technolo-gy, and the educ ation and skills of heart care providers.

One of the mo st r ecent and exciting advances is transcath-eter aortic valve replacement.

For the fi rst time, aortic valves

can be r eplaced without open-heart surgery.

With a TAVR procedure, a catheter is ins erted thr ough a small incision in a patient’s thigh that travels through blood vessels, enabling the r eplace-ment of a f ailing he art valve in the aortic artery. This treatment is for patients with severe aortic stenosis (narrowing or obstruc-tion of the aortic valve) who are considered too high risk f or traditional heart valve replace-ment surgery.

University of I owa H eart and Vascular C enter w as the fi rs t hospital in I owa t o off er this procedure and has successful-ly gi ven a ne w le ase on lif e t o many p atients f or w hom other treatments w ere simpl y not an option.

The suc cess of the T AVR program is due t o a multidis-ciplinary approach, where sur-

geons and c ardiologists w ork together and perf orm the pr o-cedures in our st ate-of-the-art hybrid operating rooms.

Another r emarkable medic al breakthrough is that p atients can no w li ve without a human heart.

This is po ssible thank s to the Total Artifi cial H eart, a unique device that s erves as a bridg e for p atients a waiting a he art transplant.

The T otal Artificial H eart replaces both failing heart ven-tricles and f our he art v alves, and it pump s a high v olume of blood to help vital organs recov-er faster. This allo ws stabilized patients to wait for a match-ing donor he art at home and resume a more normal lifestyle.

U of I Heart and Vascular Cen-ter is the fi rst and onl y plac e in I owa to off er the T otal Arti-fi cial H eart f or p atients with advanced heart failure.

But it’s not just the sick est or most fr agile p atients w ho c an benefi t fr om ad vances in he art care. N ew methods of c ardiac catheterization ha ve helped many he art p atients under go-ing r outine pr ocedures. Car -

diologists c an no w loc ate and treat blockages in the c oronary arteries b y doing c atheteriza-tion through the wrist, instead of the gr oin. This me ans a quicker r ecovery, les s dis com-fort and less bleeding risk for the patient.

Doctors at U of I H eart and Vascular Center also participate in a wide v ariety of clinic al tri-als t o help impr ove tr eatments and medic ations f or all kinds of cardiovascular issues — from high cholesterol to rapid heart-beats to advanced heart failure.

To le arn mor e about w hat’s new in he art c are, visit www .uihealthcare.org/experts.

To s earch f or curr ent clinic al trials, visit www .uihealthcare.org/ClinicalResearch.

Follow U of I H eart and V as-cular C enter on F acebook at facebook.com/uiheart or c all (319) 356-7102.

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Couple’s quick response beats heart attack clock by minutes

OELWEIN — Aft er 1 7 y ears of marriage, Deb and S cott How-ard think the y have each other fi gured out. Lik e man y c ou-ples, they have routines that they stick t o and c an g ener-ally tell when something is not right. On A pril 7 , S cott w oke up and s aid s omething didn’ t feel right.

Deb remembers that Scott was cold and clamm y, and his f ace was grey. She kne w she needed to act.

“I c ouldn’t g et him t o the hospital on m y own, so I c alled 9-1-1.”

Wheaton Ambulanc e S ervice paramedics arrived within min-utes, and Scott was transported to Mercy Hospital in Oelwein.

Emergency r oom doct ors determined that Scott was hav-ing a mas sive he art att ack. H e urgently needed t o see a c ardi-ologist for cardiac intervention, so he w as airlifted to Covenant Medical Center in Waterloo.

Deb f elt a s ense of s ecurity when paramedic Steve Carey stepped out of the helicopter.

“It’s s o r eassuring t o s ee someone w ho y ou kno w t ake him away, I stood on the ground watching him fl y over me,” Deb said.

Cardiologist Ashan Maq sood and a team of nurses were wait-ing for Scott in the catheteriza-tion labor atory, and diagno sed that Scott’s coronary artery was 100 percent blocked. Maqsood put a stent in S cott’s main c or-onary art ery t o r estore blood fl ow.

When Deb arrived at the ho s-pital, she w as told “it was a big one” and “we beat it b y maybe 10 m inutes o r l ess. T hat w as the diff erence between life and death for him.”

Scott att ended c ardiac r eha-bilitation at Mercy Hospital and returned to farming in June. He also quit smoking after his heart attack, s omething he enc our-ages his friends to do, as well.

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Scott and Deb Howard

If red is your favorite color, you’re self-confi dent, passionate in your pursuits, optimistic, animated and the center of attention.

If red is your least favorite color, you might not like the “look at me” aggressiveness the color conveys.

It’s the highest arc on the rain-bow, the beginning of the color spec-trum and the longest wavelength of color.

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It’s believed to be the fi rst color babies see.

Fashion doyenne and former Vogue/Harper’s Bazaar editor Diana Vreeland once said, “Red is the great clarifi er — bright, cleansing and revealing. It makes all other colors look beautiful. I can’t imagine getting bored with red. It would be like get-ting bored with the person you love.

Source: “Colors For Your Every Mood,” Leatrice Eiseman,

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Shortness of breath leads to discovery of cardiomyopathy

WAVERLY — Would shortness of breath be enough to make you call your doctor?

Jo Corson of Waverly was being treated f or pneumonia. She thought that was the c ause of her shortness of br eath. H er doct or ordered an echoc ardiogram at Waverly Health Center.

The test uses soundwaves to make images of the heart, show-ing pr oblems with he art v alves or chambers and the he art’s abil-ity to pump blood. C orson’s test revealed c ardiomyopathy, a dis-ease that mak es it har der f or her heart to pump blood and carry it to the rest of her body. If left untreat-ed, it can lead to heart failure.

Corson was referred to a c ardi-ologist and had a he art c atheter and bypass surgery at a W aterloo hospital. After she left the ho spi-tal, she w as sent to cardiac rehab at WHC.

Her e xperience has c aused several lif estyle chang es t o li ve a heart-healthier life.

“My husb and and I both quit smoking when I was diagnosed with pneumonia. We have always eaten pretty healthy, but have now cut back on the amount of red meat we eat. We are trying to add mor e fi sh and poultry to our diets.”

Looking b ack, C orson thought the jaw pain — a sign of he art dis-ease that many women experience — w as due t o her t emporoman-dibular joint disorder. She also had been mor e tir ed than usual, but passed it off as “growing older.”

Connie Yanda, WHC cardiovas-cular services, said, “Deep down, I think J o had a f eeling that s ome of the s ymptoms might be due t o her heart. She listened to her body and knew something wasn’t quite right.”

Heart dis ease runs in C orson’s family. Her dad died at age 41 from a heart attack. Her advice to other is “don’t ignore the signs.”

The risk of heart disease increas-es as y ou ag e. You ha ve a gr eater risk of he art dis ease if y ou ar e a man over age 45 or a w oman over

age 55. You also are at gr eater risk if you have a clo se family member who had he art disease at an e arly age.

“With s o man y smaller ho s-pitals clo sing, w e ar e s o lucky t o have W averly H ealth C enter. It ’s

so convenient for us,” Corson said. “We are blessed to have so many great health care providers, as well as visiting specialists coming in.”

To le arn mor e, check out thes e resources: www .heart.org or www.cdc.gov/heartdisease.

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Jo Corson with Waverly Health Center cardiovascular services and cardiac rehab staff.

High blood pressure: Over half of all adults with high blood pressure are women. This condition makes the heart work harder than normal and can increase your risk of stroke and heart attack.

Smoking: When you stop smoking, your risk of heart disease and stroke can be cut in half just one year later.

High cholesterol: If you need to lower your LDL (or “bad” cholesterol), work with your doctor to create a diet

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low in saturated fat, trans fat and cholesterol and an exercise plan.

Overweight and obesity: Women with excess body fat are at higher risk of heart disease, even if they don’t have other risk factors.

Diabetes: Women with diabetes have from two to four times higher death rates from heart disease. A family history of diabetes can signifi -cantly increase the risk of developing diabetes.

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Heart disease runs in my family. I knew something waswrong, but I didn’t know what. Apparently, I didn’t payattention to the warning sign—shortness of breath.

I went to my family doctor, and he said, “I don’t likethe sound of your heart.” I suppose I could have gone toIowa City or Rochester, but I felt very comfortable withmy surgeon and my cardiologist at Allen. I had openheart surgery. They replaced an aortic valve, and I hadtwo bypasses.

I really appreciated being able to have surgery at Allen,close to home. Everyone in the heart center and incardiac rehab was so wonderful. They carefullyexplained everything and made me very, very comfortable.

Now I’m feeling wonderful. I’ve lost 25 pounds.It’s fantastic to not be short of breath. It makes abig difference.

The heart care that I received at Allen was extraordinary.I think they go above and beyond.

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