Dad goes to surgery tomorrow

Sitting here, and decided to read up on the three stents, they are going to put in him tomorrow. Providing they don't find anything worse, is there much to worry about?

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All surgery carries risk but my mother has had several with no issues. So don't worry.

I assume the stents are for coronary arteries ?

If they are done endovascularly then its a pretty straightforward procedure and low complication rate and good success.

mpguy said:

Sitting here, and decided to read up on the three stents, they are going to put in him tomorrow. Providing they don't find anything worse, is there much to worry about?

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I could tell you about particular complications that may arise, but what would be the point in doing that? Sure you would have the knowledge but wouldn't that simply make the time spent waiting even more stressful? I'm talking from experience of one who had to be in the waiting room during an emergent situation where someone did come back and started telling me about complications that actually happened. The stress prior to that point was high enough.

Good luck to your father. These procedures, while having inherent risks associated with them, are very common these days and the doctors that perform them have done them many thousands of times - at the hospital where we go, the docs who do the heart catheterizations do them all day long every day. Hopefully your father went in fully aware of the risks involved. There are never enough questions that can and should be asked regarding any procedure.

Odd, I thought stents were being shied away from due to the long term effectiveness..


Hope the procedure turns out well..

Well good news, after the cat was done, they decided against stents. It wasn't add bad as the ct showed. There are 2 others spots to watch, but they think with medication, and diet, he should be OK.

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Well that's good news .. hope his outcome is a positive one ..

Give our well wishes to him...

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Well good news, after the cat was done, they decided against stents. It wasn't add bad as the ct showed. There are 2 others spots to watch, but they think with medication, and diet, he should be OK.

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Good thing today is that cardiac CT is now about 96% as accurate as catheter based angiograms. This is great news for patients since they dont have to endure the risks and time of the catheter angios.

I have had a few of each and i'll take a CT over the DSA anyday.

Thanks for the kind words everyone.

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