St. Tammany Parish government formally thanked Dr. Pramod Menon June 5, 2014, for serving as interim coroner. From left, St. Tammany Councilman Marty Gould, St. Tammany Parish President Pat Brister, Menon, St. Tammany Parish Councilman Reid Falconer, and St. Tammany Coroner Dr. Charles Preston.
A heart stent is a simple piece of technology: a collapsed metal tube a little bigger than a spring in a ballpoint pen. The idea behind its use in heart care is simple too: The stent is inserted into a blocked vein or artery and expanded to hold the passage open and allow blood to flow.
Dr. Pramod Menon of Louisiana Heart Hospital shares a successful case of Protected PCI on a high-risk patient with an EF of 25-30% who three months prior refused a prescribed cardiac catheterization.