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Multi vessel stenting vs bypass surgery

Heart & Blood Health | Last Active: Jul 8, 2020 | Replies (17)
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@cathysudlow6

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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thankful | @thankful | May 4, 2020

@cathysudlow6- Hello Cathy! I had a HA back in 2014 and my LAD was 100% blocked and the Cardiologist chose to do a stent vs. open heart surgery. My thought is that stenting has become so much more prominent because it is far less invasive than open heart and the recovering time is so very quick. I'm sure there are times when open heart is more prudent because of the complexity, but I'm not a Dr. so I can't speak to that. In the interest of the times we find ourselves in and your concerns about your dad possibly being able to fight off the Covid-19 or as my daughter tells her young daughter (the big sick) I would favor the stenting.
If you could get a second opinion that would be awesome so I would recommend that if possible.
I have a cousin in Dublin that just retired from being an ER nurse at Beaumont hospital in Dublin. She is terible about returning my emails, but I will give it a go and see if she could make a recommendation of a Cardiologist and so if I hear back I will post what she says. All my best! Jim@thankful

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