question re: cardiac stent
Night before last, our nephew, age 47, smoker, not overweight, was taken to the hospital with weakness and profound sweating. A cardiac blockage was diagnosed from a scan and yesterday, the procedure...
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liveneasy wrote:wildtoad wrote:
Unfortunately, some of the same symptoms can occur with eating an extra hot plate of Buffalo Wings.
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... and it scares the H E double hockey sticks out of you every time..!!
CT scans, stress tests, EKG's, X-rays and Blood tests are all great diagnostic tools but when it comes to actual artery blockages, the heart cath is the definitive word... and it sure beats the heck out of cracking the chest for a look-see.
Good luck to him.
The last part of Feb. I checked into the ER with chest pains. They kept me for three days and did every test except the heart cath and said I had no heart problems and that my pain was most likely the result of a muscle spasm.
I checked with another cardio Doc and he did a heart cath and found 95% blockage on the right side. Put a stent in.
So, the only way to tell if there is blockage is to do the heart cath.
