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Multi vessel stenting vs bypass surgery

Heart & Blood Health | Last Active: Jul 8, 2020 | Replies (17)
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@colleenyoung

Hi @cathysudlow6, this is such a difficult time with COVID-19 to be a caregiver and to make health decisions with your father. Of course, you want the best for your dad. With a quick Internet search, I found several research studies that showed similar clinical outcomes between stenting and surgery. So how do you chose when you have differing opinions from 2 medical professionals?

I'm also tagging @danab @thankful @miracleman and @heartbreaker to join this discussion to offer some thoughts.

Cathy, while COVID-19 is preventing you from being with your father in the hospital, keep in mind that the hospital is doing everything to make your father's environment safe and virus free. Is it possible for you to get a third opinion? Is Mayo Clinic an option for your father?

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cathysudlow6 | @cathysudlow6 | May 2, 2020

Hi Lioness and Coleen thank you for your reply's.. I am living in London and my dad is in Ireland in hospital. It is a difficult time to try and communicate it's not thr same over a phone as talking with the cardiologists or cardiothoracic surgeon plus so much harder when they both have different opinions and those been quite different!!
I am trying to see if I can get another cardiologist to give another opinion. Sorry he is not positve for covid 19. We are just worried that having the bypass surgery he may be high risk of getting thr virus and feel it would be a dangerous time as not sure he would fight it..to say that my is young 65 this year...just wondering has some people had experience of multivessel stenting with LAD artery damage at 80%.
Thank you all 🙂

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