RE: assault

["Thompson, Donald L." <DLT@CDRH.FDA.GOV>]

I'm not privy to what initiated this exchange, but maybe I can cast a little
light on the topic.  When a partial occlusion of a blood vessel is cleared
by surgery or interventional radiology, there is some abrasion to the cells
on the wall of the vessel.  The cells are stimulated to repair the damage
and occasionally over-respond restablishing the original occlusion.  The
purpose of the stent is to destroy a fraction of the new growth limiting it
to simple repair.  

	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Michael Stabin [SMTP:stabin@npd.ufpe.br]
	Sent:	Tuesday, August 31, 1999 7:54 AM
	To:	Multiple recipients of list
	Subject:	assault


	>A few months ago I had implanted into my right coronary arteria two
	>socalled "ISOSTENTS", both containing about 18 microCurie of P-32.
Would
	>this make the news on radiation harm or radiation damage?


	Well, this alone would not refute the argument.  A surgeon uses a
scalpel to
	heal, I could take that same scalpel and kill, it would be a crime.
I could
	take a high activity therapy source and use it to badly injure or
kill
	someone, that would fit the bill of assault with a deadly weapon.
Here, to
	me, the idea seems to be more of mere assault or malicious mischief,
	perhaps.


	Michael Stabin
	Departamento de Energia Nuclear/UFPE
	Av. Prof. Luiz Freire, 1000 - Cidade Universitaria
	CEP 50740 - 540
	Recife - PE
	Brazil
	Phone 55-81-271-8251 or 8252 or 8253
	Fax  55-81-271-8250
	E-mail stabin@npd.ufpe.br


	
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