30-year Eastside Medical Center Employee Becomes PHI Eastside Patient

Tom Gosdin participates in new left main coronary artery trial.

(Editor's note:  the following is a press release from Piedmont Hospital.) Tom Gosdin, 30-year Eastside Medical Center employee, had been suffering from chest pains when he came to Piedmont Heart Institute (PHI) Eastside for a cardiac catheterization. After reviewing his test results, doctors determined Gosdin was a candidate for a new left main coronary artery trial. “The result of the test was an 80% block of the left main artery commonly called the ‘Widow Maker,’” said Gosdin. “The preferred choice of treatment for the ‘Widow Maker’ was open heart by-pass. In the new study, if I was selected, there was a 50/50 chance that I would receive a stent instead of being opened up for surgery, which would require a long hospital stay along with …

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