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Left Carotid Artery 85% Blockage
Heart & Blood Health | Last Active: Jul 8 9:37am | Replies (4)Comment receiving replies
Hello, thank you for your input. I don’t know what a descriptor is. I just know what I was told. An enlarged heart with mild mitral valve prolapse. Nothing was ever done. Also told I was in Heart Failure at that time . EF 35% .
5/4-5/14 found out no HF! EF was 60%. That is when I switched to new Cardio Dr. Also discovered 8 weeks prior left Carotid Artery was 50% blocked now 75%. Also all my other health ailments, I had a Bone Marrow Transplant, hence the Total Body Radiation. Surgery, no Stent, no TCAR. The original way. Cut the neck and clean out the Artery and Pray to God a piece doesn’t slip away to my brain during the process. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
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Sorry, by descriptor I mean a standard adjective used in the industry to situate the defect in relation to other levels or stages of that defect. For example, the enlargement can be described (with descriptors...) as 'mild,' or 'moderate', or 'severe,' or just a volumetric descriptor such as '5 cc', or 7 cc'. No big deal, just looking for a word that might have you in mild, moderate, or severe categories.
I think you have done the right thing to get a second look at you. The wide variance suggests something is not right.