2006-10-11 08:18:45 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Heart Diseases
Myocardial Infarction is another way to say heart attack. Leeches can't help restore the arteries that supply the heart, unfortunately.
2006-10-11 08:20:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Leeches would be of no use. A myocardial infarction is an area of dead tissue in the heart muscle, and there would be no way that a leech could do anything to restore vascularity or remove the clots. However, another animal is being used but in a different way. The Malayan Pit Viper Agkistrodon rhodostoma supplies venom and the venom is used to produce a drug called 'Arvin' and it does have the ability to dissolve the clot. Interestingly, the company that produces this drug is a subsidiary of the Guiness Beer Company and of course, the Guiness Book of World Records. The snakes are kept in a very modern laboratory and venom is extracted about every two to three weeks, then altered. It has never been widely used (mostly in Europe) and of course is a rather expensive drug.
2006-10-11 18:21:38 · answer #2 · answered by Frank 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You only use leeches to treat an M.I. if your patient is somebody that you REALLLLLLY dont like.
2006-10-12 08:17:28 · answer #3 · answered by EMT Geoffrey 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No who is going to allow a doctor to cut open their chest and put a leach in it?
A MI is affecting the heart muscle.
2006-10-11 08:21:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Anything is possible even as crazy as you sound
2006-10-11 08:25:51 · answer #5 · answered by ChicaLoca 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
NO
2006-10-11 08:22:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋