If you don't have any symptoms, why has the doctor set up angiogram and stents?. Are you diabetic? Sometimes there is ischemia (lack of blood flow) to the heart cells, and no symptoms with a diabetic. If you aren't diabetic you may want to get a second opinion and take appropriate medication.
Drug eluding stents are better than bare bare metal stents in that there is a reduction to restenosis.
My complaint is an interventional cardiologists is inclined to implant stents during the procedure. Sometimes stents are not really necessary, and statistics indicate there are many stents and could have been successfully treated with medication.
My current doctor is a non-interventional cardiologist (recommended CT scan) and treats with medication as an option, the first doctor I had was an interventional cardiologist who favors stents as a remedy ....
Hi, I had a double bypass in May 2011, three months ago and in the past two weeks i am getting very intense chest pain like i had before the surgery. I am having an angiogram in 5 days time and i am worried as they cannot put stents in because i am on Warfarin (Comadum} and they cannot give me another blood thinner for the platlets as they do when they put in stents.
I have just turned 60.
Thanks a mill!
My dad is 90 years old. He has had stents inserted about 3 times. He has another blockage that needs to be opened up. I took him to the local hospital here in Las Vegas. They performed an angiogram and the doctor tried to insert the balloon without success. He said he could only get it in half way because prior operations had left to much tissue in the way. Is there a chance there is a doctor around that has more experience in this procedure. Is there an alternative course of action?
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I have no angina and excellent exercise ability. My cardio suggested to get an angiogram to see if it really blocked or just a false positive. I'm scared of the angiogram. Isn't the new 64 slice CT scan just as good to detect blockages as the invasive angiogram?
I've had five stents inserted 2 weeks ago what does the future hold for me. I will be 50 this year. How long will these stents last?
hey my dad is suppose to go in for an angiogram but he fears what might happen to him if he does. i was wondering if there was possible any alternative procedure or something else he could possibly do.
I had 5 stents installed 12 years ago, they worked great but I am now having the same symptoms I was having before having them put in originally. does anyone know if they will reinstall stents or what the next step might be?
I had 5 stents installed 12 years ago, they worked great but I am now having the same symptoms I was having before having them put in originally. does anyone know if they will reinstall stents or what the next step might be?
His LDL is very low indeed, but LDL will not be an influence on forming scar tissue in the stents. I think if the angiogram from Dec 2010 looks clear, he should have another one to see what's going on. If you haven't been told there is heart tissue damage, then obviously there is still a blood flow restriction going on somewhere.
Hi thankyou for your quick reply my husband has had angiogram and they had a case confronce on him if they would try stenth first or a bye pass as he has 2 fully blocked and 1 larger partyly blocked archery but said they try stenth although they say bye pass in long run is best my husband is 65 but teaches dancing strickly ballroom and latin so is quiet fit sorry i am not very good at this and cant spell very well best wishes dancer2525
This is my first post and I'm here because of recently discovered heart issues. My doctor recommended I have a heart scan for calcium, (plaque in the heart arteries) and when that came back my score was 957 which I understand is extremely high, and they found six areas of concern. The biggest concentration was in the left artery and in the LAD. My doctor got me on a statin and I made radical changes to my diet immediately.
Long story short he had a stress test, which was abnormal, and then today he had an angiogram which showed that 1 of his previous 3 stents was 90% blocked as well as 2 new blockages also at 90%. So the doctors have recommended for him to have bypass surgery since there are 3 blockages. However he has also been given the option to have more stents put in and fix it that way.
had a tripple bypass 17 OCT 2009 after angiogram which showed 7 blockages of 98% & 78%
ONLY A STIFFNESS IN MY JAWS AND PAIN IN MY GUMS PLUS DISCOMFORT IN THE EPIGASTRIUM WERE SIGNS TO GO BY
nothing showed up in any of the normal tests done by the cardiologists.
9months later I experienced severe repeat of the same symptons ,again the ECG is normal
I am going for an angiogram this coming MONDAY 31 AUG
would be interesting to know what the results are going to be.
Any advice?
ve had so many of them and so many stents I find a root canal more intrusive. Stents have helped me a great deal. Treating blockages with medication is necessary, but I believe medications are more intrusive in one's life than a stent. There are very good arguements both ways on this issue, stents vs. medication.
To repeat, I'd look at the operative report during the first stent and see what was reported.
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