Toni Braxton's "Dancing with the Stars" Announcement Coincides with Breakthrough...

Toni Braxton's "Dancing with the Stars" Announcement Coincides with Breakthrough Research by an Eminent Cardiologist/Medical Researcher

NEW YORK--(Business Wire)--
Monday night on ABC's hit reality series "Dancing with the Stars,"
singer Toni Braxton announced that she has been diagnosed with a
little known heart condition known as Microvascular Angina.
Coincidentally, major advances have just been made in treating the
disorder, as outlined in a study about to be published in the
International Journal of Cardiology. Although most physicians still
treat MVA with medication, Dr. Ken Kronhaus has proven that a simple,
non-invasive procedure is far more effective.

The medical establishment had been confounded for years by a
condition known as "Cardiac Syndrome X", or Microvascular Angina
(MVA), in which patients (average age of 49) exhibited symptoms
exactly the same as many of those afflicting Toni Braxton.

Dr. Ken Kronhaus had seen the same disturbing pattern develop with
many patients at his Cardiology practice in Central Florida. Though it
occurred in a variety of people, he noticed that this strange
phenomenon was most prevalent in middle-aged peri-menopausal women.

Tragically many of these female patients had been to other
physicians who, unable to explain their symptoms, told them that it
was "all in their head."

In truth it was all in their heart - deep in their heart. Patients
with MVA have blockages in the tiny branches of the coronary arteries,
not visible through conventional cardiac catheterization. MVA is very
likely affecting more than 10 million Americans, yet until now there
has been no truly effective treatment available. As a result, doctors
have often prescribed medications usually used to treat blockages in
the larger blood vessels of the heart, a course of treatment met with
little success in MVA patients.

But in a groundbreaking paper to be published this month in the
International Journal of Cardiology, Dr. Kronhaus and fellow
researcher Prof. William Lawson M.D. of the University Medical Center
at the State University of New York at Stony Brook found that a simple
non-invasive procedure known as Enhanced External Counterpulsation
(EECP) was effective in treating 95% of the patients with MVA. Dr.
Kronhaus has had great success using EECP to treat patients with
blockages of the large blood vessels that sit on top of the heart; it
was Dr. Lawson, one of the pioneers in EECP, who suggested the
possible use of this procedure to treat MVA. Dr. Kronhaus began using
EECP on some of his MVA patients with miraculous results!

So far he has treated over 180 patients with Microvascular Angina,
the largest series in the world, with great success. The vast
majority, some of whom were beset by debilitating symptom for years,
were without ANY symptoms after treatment, saving them from complex
and unnecessary medical procedures and inevitable disability.

Dr. Kronhaus' research was presented at the 53rd Annual Scientific
Sessions of the American College of Cardiology. But, even more
important given his desire to get this crucial information into the
hands of his fellow physicians, on July 1 of this year his research
findings were published on the website of the International Journal of
Cardiology, and will be published in the Journal itself this fall.

Dr. Kronhaus has continued to spread the word about his findings
to the medical community and the public on his nationally syndicated
radio program, Good Day Health, which is heard in 140 markets
throughout the U.S. Dr. Kronhaus is also a spokesperson for the
American Heart Association.

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