Thursday, October 9, 2014



A heart patient can dance again.

Edgar Irastorza was just 31 when his heart stopped beating in October 2008. During a workout one day, he felt short of breath and insisted that friends rush him to the hospital. Minutes later, his pulse flat lined.

Researchers took adult and inserted them through a catheter directly into Irastorza’s heart. About a third of his left ventricle had been destroyed by his heart attack, which was attributed to a hereditary cholesterol problem. Today, his doctors tell him his heart is one-third of the way back to normal.