European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 22, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday december 22, 1992 . The stars and stripes b Page 5 doctors warn of Holiday heart ailments Washington apr Holiday revellers beware partying too Hearty can be bad for your heart. Alcohol affects the nerves that control the heart and heavy drinking can literally set the heart aflutter in atrial fibrillation a rapid arrhythmic beat that can require a Hospital visit and medication. A Holiday heart syndrome is one of the alcohol induced conditions that keep doctors Busy this time of year. A people celebrate or get depressed or for other reasons they drink More a said or. Michael j. Bresler speaker of the american College of emergency physicians House of delegates. Victims usually arrive at the emergency room a acutely intoxicated and afraid they re having a heart attack said Bresler chief of emergency Medicine at Mills Hospital in san Mateo Calif. One or two drinks can affect the heart rate and the changes Are greater with More drinking said or. Milford c. 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Pohost chairman of the american heart associations Council on clinical cardiology. A a that a not something most of us feel comfortable with when we Are not exercising Quot said Pohost director of cardiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. A it gives people this very frightening sensation of impending  scary though it can be Holiday heart syndrome rarely spells doom. Only 1 percent to 5 percent of people with atrial fibrillation die and Holiday heart victims would be a fraction of that Maloney said. However patients can to be sure they re not really having a heart attack so doctors warn victims not to downplay their symptoms As merely the Price they pay for too much partying. But alcohol can mask some symptoms said Bresler a people who Are acutely drunk sometimes done to feel pain As much As they might  and it May also affect the victims perception of what a going on. A drunks have the whole panoply of behaviour Quot Bresler said. Quot some have to be put in restraints or  kill themselves or kill you. Others act normally. And others Are inappropriately Jolly and  unless there is underlying heart disease Holiday heart victims can expect a fairly Quick recovery. Calcium Channel or Beta blockers Are prescribed and electrical defibrillators May be used to reset the heart. A a it a not terribly debilitating a Bresler said. Besides getting the heart rhythms working right doctors usually want the patient to metabolize the alcohol before leaving the Hospital. Bresler said that part of his discharge test is Standard for anything involving alcohol. A if they can get up walk around without swaying hold a hot cup of Coffee and drink it without spilling it we let them go a he said. If they re still too drunk to drive the Hospital might give them a taxi voucher Bresler said. Children s Liberty was Worth it cuban defector tells of using borrowed plane to get family to be Able to sneak into Cuba is possible but to land on a Busy Roadway. Between cars was indeed a  a Orestes Lorenzo Perez Miami apr a cuban air Force defector says he risked his life by flying a Small plane Back to the Island and Spir iting out his family because a my children a Liberty was Worth  Orestes Lorenzo Perez a former major who defected nearly two years ago by flying his Mig fighter Jet to the Nas key West said he swooped into his Homeland saturday in a plane borrowed from a human rights group. . Customs spokesman Tom Bowers said sunday that his Agency was investigating the report and that he Wasny to convinced that Lorenzo made the flight. It. Col. Doug Hart a spokesman for the department of defense said he was unaware of the flight and would not comment further. But the North american aerospace defense come said sunday that Lorenzo a plane was picked up on its radar and determined to be Friendly. Lorenzo said he made the trip knowing the cuban government had condemned him to death As a traitor. A to be Able to sneak into Cuba is possible but to land on a Busy Roadway. Between cars was indeed a Miracle a he said saturday after he and his family arrived in Miami from their first . Stop Marathon Airport in the Florida keys. A the possibility of being captured or Many malls put a Damper on salvation army s Bells Norman okla. Apr salvation army volunteers Are a familiar Holiday sight but their Bells Are becoming an unfamiliar sound at Many . Shopping centers. The sooner fashion mall in Norman South of Oklahoma City is among those that have moved to quiet the Bells. It told salvation army collectors this year to substitute Copper wires or paper clips for their Clappers. A it just kind of wears on the people in the mall a said Claire Mclinn the shopping centers marketing manager. One of those people is june Collins who manages a sunglasses boutique. She said she a not a Scrooge but can to stand the ringing. A we hear this 10 hours a Day a she said. A i went Home at night and i heard  Frank Gordon the salvation army a director for the Oklahoma City area said Bells Are being silenced at malls around the country. He said some malls that have banned the Bells have become targets of shopping Boycotts. But in other places Clever volunteers Are getting around the bans he said. One Volunteer at a Dallas mall carried a pingpong paddle in each hand alternately raising each one he said. A the put a Ding on one and a Dong on the other a Gordon said. A it was an  being gunned Down was a High risk but my children a Liberty was Worth it a Lorenzo told a Sci to of Miami. A my children a Freedom is Worth any  Lorenzo said he flew Low to avoid radar Landing in the Early evening on a Busy Road in cubans Northern province of Matanzas. His wife Victoria said she grabbed her sons Reniel 11, and Alejandro 6, and ran even though one of them cried out that he had lost his shoe. A i told him a forget the shoe. Father is in that  and they ran just As fast As i did because we were convinced that we would make it a she said. Lorenzo 37, said he did no to break any . Laws because he was flying a . Registered plane and advised traffic controllers that he was airborne. Lorenzo frustrated by cubans refusal to Grant visas for his family decided it was time to take matters into his own hands said Armando Valladares a former cuban prisoner and founder of the Valladares foundation a human rights organization. Cuban officials said Lorenzo was considered a traitor and had no right to expect his family a visa request would be moved ahead of a Long list of others. Valladares group based in Alexandria va., owns the twin prop plane Lorenzo used saturday. Valladares also helped arrange the Rescue by passing word to Lorenzo a wife during a recent visit to Cuba. Elena Diaz verson Amos who co chairs the foundation donated $30,000 to buy the plane said Christina Arriaga the foundations executive director. Valladares said Lorenzo was interviewed by the Fri after the family landed at Marathon. They spent much of sunday with . Immigration officials in Miami he said. Lorenzo and his family left sunday night for Washington where they intend to stay with friends said Brandon Scheid of the foundation. Oral Roberts released after Hospital tests Tulsa okla. Apr televangelist Oral Roberts has been released from a Hospital after undergoing tests for Chest pains. Roberts 74, was released saturday from St. John medical Center with a an excellent prognosis a said Hospital spokesman Stephen Reynolds. Roberts was admitted dec. 14 after suffering Chest pains. Reynolds said doctors weren to sure of the cause but had ruled out a heart attack. In october Roberts had a heart attack received a pacemaker and underwent a coronary angioplasty in which a balloon Catheter is inserted into a narrowed or blocked artery and expanded to Clear the artery. An often fatal complication Cardi Genic Shock forced doctors to implant a pump to maintain Roberts blood pressure. The pump and pacemaker were later removed. Roberts underwent two successful surgeries in Spring 1991 to Widen carotid arteries in his neck. Such surgery generally is done to prevent strokes