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Originally Posted by zip2play Well,
Is that the way everybody who has a stent gets stented or do they ususally pull the works out and do it all later? Do they always at least baloon blockages if possible with the angiogram?! |
Zip,
Since I had 3 of these in 2002...they will usually place the stent while in there since the worst part is already over by then (insertion and balloon inflation if a stent is coming). You probably know this, but the tendency to reblock without a stent is much greater.... Oh, and you want this over all in one swoop though... Multiple angiograms are really not the way I want to keep having it...I wanted them to place two stents the first time, they didn't. Sure enough, I needed another one 3 months later--that would have saved me another ER trip.
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Originally Posted by zip2play Did everyone who had angiography get a set of pictures for over the fireplace...I like records of EVERYTHING that's done to me.
The scary parts were the stroke risk of 1/500 and death, 1/1000...
At least I won't have months to dwell on the procedure! |
Those odds are pretty slim, and much better than 1 in 2 to 1 in 3 survival after an MI
I had to face those odds...give me the angiogram thanks!
Yes, I have my sets of pictures. Unfortunately, the cats I have love that paper too. Er, actually, they urinate on that paper. I have one set destroyed by them already.
Talk to you in a few days, off to the Orange Bowl.
Hang in there Zip!
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