Can Watch My Daughter Grow Up

Since childhood Daniel Courtney experienced sporadic chest pain, a common symptom of coronary artery disease. When he turned 18 years old, Daniel was diagnosed with hypertension, which runs in the family, and polycythemia, a blood disease characterized by an abnormal increase in the number of red blood cells. Doctors also discovered that Daniel had scars in his heart from previous undetected attacks.

One night while sleeping, Daniel woke up with severe shooting pain on his left side. Amazingly, he drove himself to the hospital where staff quickly performed an angiography, a procedure where catheters are threaded into the heart through an opening in an artery in the patient's groin. A chest X-ray confirmed that Daniel had suffered a heart attack.

To close the puncture site, Jose M. Dimen, MD, from Memorial Hospital, Colorado Springs, Colorado USA, used a breakthrough technology from St. Jude Medical, the Angio-Seal™ STS Plus vascular closure device. The Angio-Seal device allows for fast and safe return to mobility. Without a closure device, a patient must lay flat for hours following firm, often painful manual compression. Daniel recovered quickly and with little pain.

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Twenty-six-year-old Daniel was pleased with his "quick recovery" and appreciates the St. Jude Medical technology that allowed him to return to work two days later.

Today, Daniel enjoys his work as a convenience store manager. More importantly, Daniel appreciates his return to health because he can spend more time with his young daughter, Cindley, and with his wife Amanda. "I feel happy because I can watch my daughter grow up."

Daniel writes fiction stories, which he hopes to publish one day. When he isn't writing, he rides his motorcycle, his second passion.

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