Other than the baloony thingy is there other shit they can do

coronary artery bypass graft

CABG

open surgery

They won't do open surgery

may still be amenable to some sort of stenting

I don't know the exact situation

can do medical anticoagulation but that's of limited effectiveness

he's already had it likely anyway

a collateral circulation develops anyway

depends on what vessel it is as well

Major bypass surgery was done 19 years ago, stents put in 2008

Each heart attack is a new area

Borrowed time

oh okay

nothing can be done then

just aspirin, clopidogrel, statins

yeah my mom is getting a stent put in today supposedly

a stent where?

she just said two arteries are clogged

at first they weren't going to do it

since they said it wasn't bad enough

stable coronary vessel disease is a different disease almost

yeah, she's never had cardiac symptoms. just a very faint murmur she's had for years and years

ekg always comes back good

that's why i asked

she's had chest wall pain since as long as i can remember but i chalk that up to smoking and coughing constantly

it's controversial to stent such a person

SEE

fuck man

unless her chest pain is definitely cardiac

it's most certainly not

then there is no proven benefit to angioplasty and stenting

this has caused significant controversy

that's what i suspected on the fucking phone to her

but she insists on having yet another procedure done

to assuage her own fears

I haven't told you my opinion

just what the mainstream position is

what's the hessian perspective

I don't think its egregious to have stenting with major vessel disease