I am glad you asked!
I've had stents on 2 occasions, and a triple bypass on the other; so I hope that will do!
I played Basketball 2 nights ago - with young bucks - fellow-members from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We now have a fairly regular sports night down at the chapel, here in Australia. Lately it has been every 2 or 3 weeks. They also like their volleyball; so I am trying to better learn that gameLOL!
But I also play handball with my son on a regular basis, though we have been slacker of late. When we're not playing downball, we might get in a tennis hit for an hour, as he belongs to a local club; but we also used to hit, though, just down the street ... so you don't have to do anything formal.
Although basketball might be too active for the majority my age, tennis doubles can be played into your 70's if you wish.
Swimming is good for most ages; I do a little cyccling machine work - probably should do more though. I remember a man when I was small, named "Mr Farmer" ... even when he was about 93, he used to cycle down the street nearly every day. Of course, there were no stents back then!!!
Stents.
ehhh.... the whole things is an unnatural act. an alternative would have been to bypass those 2 vessels, but there are reasons for not doing a bypass... like the age of the patient etc...
This patient has had coronary artery bypass grafting. This is an open heart surgery. In the surgery, the patient got 4 of their heart arteries replaced with stents. Stents help restore blood flow to the heart. This surgery was secondary to coronary artery disease, which is when the arteries of the heart get hardened with plaque.
yes
I have had 32 stents put in in the last 7 years
a person could potentially receive 10-15 or even more stents even under reasonable and appropriate care
Following balloon dilation or incision of ureteral strictures, placement of stents maintains the functionality of the ureters. Stents may also be used in the presence of kidney stones to manipulate or prevent stone migration prior to treatment.
It is "Stents" and not stets. Stents are small, metallic, porous cylindrical structures that are placed within a blood vessel to prevent re-narrowing of the blood vessel due to chloesterol deposition. Usually these stents are placed after a "ballon angioplasty", a medical surgery to clean the deposited cholesterol plaques in the blood vessels (coronary arteries), to prevent re-narrowing or furhter deposition of chlolesterol that may block the coronary arteries and may lead to Angina or heart attack. In some cases these stents may also be coated with drugs such stents are called as drug eluting stents.
Are aspirin and acetaminophen the same thing
Probabably not, it may be caused by something else, or something related, but the best thing to do is to check with your doctor.
Coronary stents last forever and will never be removed. However, 10-20% of patients may develop retenosis, or blockage in he stent, which would require another procedure to clear them out. For this reason it is very important for patients who have been treated with Stents to take Plavix and Aspirin as prescribed by their doctor until told otherwise.
It is a mesh tube that is put into the heart's artries you can go to this website to learn more http://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/treatment-angioplasty-stents and