My dad, who is 76 years old, suffered a heart attack (Sept. 1992) and underwent triple bypass surgery in Jan. 1993 with mitral valve replacement. He has been doing very well the last 14 years until the summer of 2007 when he started having problems breathing on minimal exertion accompanied by chest pain and not helped with Nitroglycerin. My Dad's cardiologist did a angiogram in Nov. 2007 and found his EF to be 0.25%.
My partner is having an angiogram after suffering chest pains a few weeks ago. NAD was found at the time from blood tests and ECG (done over 18 hours). Was kept in overnight. Had no discomfort since, but suffers from type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and cholesterol which are all controlled and low due to medication.
His chest pains were 4 weeks ago and he's had nothing since.
63 years, businessman done angiogram which reveals that 80% proximal stenosis in RCA. 80% PROXIMAL, 60% MID PART STENOSIS, OM2 40% PROXIMAL STENOSIS in LCX. and 40% proximal, 50% long segment distal stenosis in LAD. LMCA is normal. STENTING is done in RCA (DEPLOYED a 3.5 X 13 mm CORTRON STENT [COBALT CHROMIUM] @ 12 ATOMS FOR 30 secs) and LCX (DEPLOYED a 2.75 X 23 mm XIENCE V STENT [DES] @ 10 atms for 30 secs). MRI of brain showing acute small infarct in right corona radiata.
s not a normal reaction to an angiogram. Possibly it has nothing to do with the angiogram. It might be something more or less unrelated. It kind of sounds like a migraine type of thing, on the face it. It could even be some type of reaction to relief of stress. We think of stress as being able to cause physical symptoms, and it certainly can, but sometimes just a sudden offset of stress can cause a reaction in the body.
my mom is suffering from chest pain so we done and angiogram inthat report is
lmca: normal
lad: proximal lad has mild 30-40%stenosis
mid lad has 80-85% stenosis after d2
lcx:proximal lcx has 20-30% stenosis
rca: dominant and normal sothey advised to put a stent but it importent to put a stund or any other treatments but before doing angiogram we done ecg, tmt, 2d-echo but every thing was normal
Thanks for the info. An angiogram has been suggested more then likely I will have the proceedure, As someone said keeping still for several hours is the hardest part. My results were from a stress test,which I was able to do physically without pain, at the end I was out of breath but not breathing laboriously. If I could resolve this problem without surgery I would. Can that happen? Thru excercise and diet?
It means that there are some narrower passages (stenosis) in your coronary arteries, but none of them is so severe that medical intervention is required.
50% narrowing seems much but normally problems do arise when the narrowing is 80% or more.
FFR (fractional flow reserve) measures the blood pressure drop over the stenosis. FFR values above 0.80 mean that no treatment is required (besides medical management).
LMCA, LAD, LCx and RCA are names of the different coronary arteries.
The site provides a definition of cat scan calcium score and cat scan angiogram. I had a CC score and angiogram a couple of years ago. I believe the state-of-art for CAT has scans of 256 slices....provides more detail and sharper images.
I find the Mayo Clinic, Minn or Cleveland Clinic to be a good source for medical procedures, tests, dx, prognosis, etc.
I had an angiogram done 3 weeks ago and about a week ago I started being very itchy in that area now a week later I am itchy all over and have hives. Could this be from the angiogram? I also had an angio-seal put in. It is driving me crazy. what can i do?
There is medical documentation where catheter induced coronary spasm was uncovered with a CT angiogram. From what I have read it is not unusual to unintentionly induce a spasm with a cath, and if so how does a doctor differentiate? Is it possible a doctor can't distinquish and stents the location of the spasm?
Has the doctor ruled out pericarditis. This is inflammation of the fluid that surrounds and in place within a sac...pericarditis can happen and then go away, come back, etc.
Unfortunately, I made an error in first post...I do know the difference between angioplasty and an angiogram. I tried to make a corrrection in my second post and inartfully referred specifically to just an angiogram (cath vs. CT scan). Prit's father had had a CT angiogram and now the doctor wanted to do a cath angiogram.
But i didnt have these before i cant explain what it is but a guy described his the same and he had heart blockage with all the same testbi had and the only test that showed it was an angiogram. How could i know that i dont have blockages? Im getting scared because there getting worse?
I saw a cardiologist last week and he has me scheduled for an angiogram next week due to abnormalities on my nuclear stress test and signs of possible blockage. I also have a high angaston score of 957 predominately in the LAC. He seemed to be rather laid back about how big of a deal this could be because I'm not having angina or shortness of breath.
Some more insight in addition to Flycaster's information.
You should get an understanding if the totally blocked arteries have developed a natural bypass (collateral vessels,angiogeneisis growth) that is now supplying the area with blood/oxygen. I and others on this forum have totally blocked arteries and manage very well without intervention (by-pass). You my not need a bypass or a stent.
A calcium score can help RISK stratify you for major cardiac events over the long term, but it DOES not tell you specifics about the extent of your current blockages. A CT angiogram or a cath angiogram can do that--cath is still the gold standard.
Recommendations for asymptomatic individuals based on their coronary calcium sore can be summarized as follows. Calcium scores of 0 identify individuals in the "lowest-risk" group with 10 year risk for cardiac events less than 5%.
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