Angiography stent placement
Common Questions and Answers about Angiography stent placement
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The outcome of the FFR measurements guides the cardiologist in the decision if the patient will benefit from a stent placement or not.
IVUS is not used standard. Some cardiologists use it occasionally, in difficult cases, or to assist in the selection and sizing of stents and balloons. Others use it routinely, to confirm accurate stent placement and optimal stent deployment.
I guess, in a couple of year it will be routinely used by all cardiologists/interventionalists.
@Ger57 Thanks for reply.
Left main coronary artery = normal
Mid Left anterior descending artery (LAD): proximal and distal LAD normal with 10% to 20% stenosis in mid LAD.
Proximal Left circumflex coronary artery (LCX): normal
Distal LCX: 50 to 60% stenosis
Right Coronary Artery: normal
Right Ventricular branches: normal
Posterior descending coronary arteries: normal
Calcium score: 3.
He was undergone a Treadmill test, a few weeks ago and the Doctor observed borderline positive Treadmill Test and suggested an Angiography. He undergone Angiography a couple of days ago and the report said that the Right Coronary Artery is 100% blocked. According to the Cardiologist, who performed Angiography, the blockage is old. But, my father has no pain (Angina), no fatigue and other common symptoms of Coronary Artery Disease. He’s perfectly alright.
Dominant vessel with patent stent to proximal Cx AV Cx has minor disease. OM1 has patent proximal stent. Minor disease proximal and distant to stent in OM.
VG to OM2 and PDA are occluded.
RCA: Non-dominant with minor proximal disease.
Grafts Study:-
LIMA to LAD: Patent with good flow
VG to Diag1: Occluded.
VG to OM2: Occluded.
VG to PDA: Occluded.
My Grandmother has been detected with a blockage in heart, and its not getting well by the use of medicines.
Her Doctor is suggesting Angiography now.
Her age is 81 by now. I wanted to take other Doctors opinion about this case.
The PCA is a cath interventional procedure that will stent and open the LAD. The stent procedure could have been done at the time of the angiogram...did your physical condition/reaction at the time of the test prevent doing a stent implant at the time?
No other problems indicated on the report. You may want to get an understanding regarding your passing out! You may have been overdosed or allergic to the dye, etc.
He was undergone a Treadmill test, a few weeks ago and the Doctor observed borderline positive Treadmill Test and suggested an Angiography. He undergone Angiogram a couple of days ago and the report said that the Right Coronary Artery is 100% blocked. According to the Cardiologist, who performed Angiography, the blockage is old. But, my father has no pain (Angina), no fatigue and other common symptoms of Coronary Artery Disease. He’s perfectly alright.
He was undergone a Treadmill test, a few weeks ago and the Doctor observed borderline positive Treadmill Test and suggested an Angiography. He undergone Angiogram a couple of days ago and the report said that the Right Coronary Artery is 100% blocked. According to the Cardiologist, who performed Angiography, the blockage is old. But, my father has no pain (Angina), no fatigue and other common symptoms of Coronary Artery Disease. He’s perfectly alright.
I had 1 stent put in, and an Angioplasty in the other due to I need a 2 mm stent that is drug eluding, but it is currently not availiab... Since then 11/04 , the stent is now offered. My symptoms have improved, and I feel no pain. Is it wise to still have the stent placed?
Repeat Angiograms
Oct 10, 2008 02:33PM in the Interventional Cardiology Expert Forum
I had a stent and angioplasty 4 months ago. Since then I have pain in in the middle of my back. They would like to do a repeat angiogram.
But she was moving fine, until 2 weeks back she had Angina attack and we got her Angiography done yesterday which revealed that her one of the artery is blocked over 90% near the beginning. Docs recommend her to go for Stent implant.
Now seeing her past history of ASD,and low platelets count. Would you recommend to go for it or not? Any risks involved in that?
After stent placement you normally get more medication than just a beta blocker (Metoprolol).
You will get an anti-coagulation medicine for 1 year (dependent on the type of stent) to prevent the stent to become clotted.
You will get other medication (beta blocker, aspirin, bp lowering medicin) to prevent the forming of new blockages.
The gold standard is coronary angiography. I think you should undergo coronary angiography after the excision biopsy as you’ll also be assured if the coronary angiography comes out to be normal.
I hope that helps. Please do keep me posted. Kind Regards.
Her genral codition is now stable and doctor has now advice for angiography, kindly suggest whether we should go for angiography and depending upon result of it we should go for further process ( such as angioplasty and ByPass ) as my grand mother age is 78. Please suggest.
Is it advisable to go for angiography check up as six years have passed post surgery? Are there any side effects after angiography? My physician has recommended Angiography check up as life of stent is normally 10 years .I shall be pleased to receive your recommendation and advise.
Invasive bypass, stents are not always sure shot as their might be a case of rejected grafts,clot formation in stents. What's best is EECP. with AMT. Try that and doctors not into EECP would always advise Bypass. If you want highly inexpensive but best EECP treatment then you might try taking free telephonic advice on randhawahospital.com
Best wishes.
Are arrhythmias normal after stent placement in the LAD? My father is 57 years old and had a stent placed on july 7th 2010. He said he feels like his heart isnt beating right and that it hurts sometimes when it beats. Doctors dont seem to be concerned and he is due to see the cardiologist in October for another section of his heart that they were concerned about. Any help??
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