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Treatment for Coronary Total Occlusion(100% blockage)
Heart & Blood Health | Last Active: Nov 8, 2023 | Replies (45)Comment receiving replies
@caretakermom- Anna, If I had the time and was aware of my problem I would have definitely gone to Mayo, but as I said I only found out after suffering my HA. The main reason for the trip to the Mayo as I said was to get an 2nd opinion because I kept being told that my EF had not improved.
I had my HA in May of 2014 and went to the Mayo in April of 2018. The battery of tests I had there confirmed to me that my EF was far better than I had been told here by my Cardiologist over a 4 year period. Jim@thankful
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Jim @thankful. Mayo pre kidney transplant nurse called today. They have reviewed all of husband's cardio records for the past 6 months. They are telling us he needs to get the CTO fixed before he can be qualified for a kidney eval. The thing I'm worried about is cardiologist says the PCI (Percutaneous Coronary Intervention) procedure success rate is a mere 30%. PCI is preferable because it is the least invasive as opposed to open heart surgery which has a much higher success rate to fix the blockage. So conflicted as to what to do. Cardiologist doesn't feel we need to address the CTO at this moment and gives the impression that it's not worth it to try PCI because of low success rate, so just leave as is. On the other hand, it would be great if husband can get a new kidney so that he could live a somewhat normal life but in order to do that, he has to have open heart surgery!! It sounds like cardiologist is saying husband can live a good life without having to do anything about the CTO, because the collateral blood vessels have formed.
Jim, did you ever have to have open heart surgery? This sounds very scary to me!