Cardiologist Appointment H F

[Prada47]

I had a Face to Face with my Cardiologist yesterday and it was quite a positive meeting. I have had Bypass surgery in 2015, Heart Attack in 1982 currently I have a 100% blocked Right Coronary Artery and the area of my Heart that it would supply is beyond repair, in his words it's dead !!

In 2018 the cardiologist put 2 stents into my already bypassed LAD now for the Fun bit.

I had an MRI (stress ) a few weeks ago and he went through what it showed and for me importantly what it didn't show. I get short of breath when doing anything out of the ordinary, it is my main symptom of HF. He went through all my Meds and said they are all at the limit, so nothing to do there. My Ejection Fraction is 39% which is I think quite decent !

Then he said an MRI does not necessary show everything I need to know, so I would like to carry out an Angiogram as I think the two stents I put in are to small and you would benefit from larger stents ! He said when I do the Angiogram I will have everything on stand by to do the PCI at the same time ( thanks for that doc ). Finally he ended up with if this doesn't work I am afraid you will have to live with the shortness of breath.

Hey ho I an almost 75 so I will be able to manage that, I did say if if it doesn't improve. I will be willing to try anything that's going and he said he would make a note of it. So it is a wait of 6 to 8 weeks for the Angiogram so a very positive outcome. I asked the question earlier in another post do they just stent through the stents with a larger one or do they extract the small ones and put bigger ones in !!!

Sorry it's so long but just an updating for fellow HF patients .

Regards

[skid112 Heart Star]

Glad to hear you are still doing well, and good to now they are looking after you.Hopefully all goes smoothly with the angiogram and the stenting of stents!

[Prada47 in reply to skid112]

Hi Mark nice to hear from you. Are still in Spain or in the sunny South West ?.

Yes I reckon I am doing OK a little up and down but hey still getting around and enjoying life.

Best Regards

[skid112 Heart Star in reply to Prada47]

Still in not so sunny Spain, far too much rain the last month, but the sun will be shining next few days, be getting the trowel out to dig put a few weeds.

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Dear Prada47

Well you had a day and a half didn’t you, well at lest your cardiologist seems switched on and interested in your prognosis.

The re-stenting with lager stents is interesting and hopefully will help with that annoying breathlessness that you suffer with.

You said in one of your posts that you would be interested in going down the pacemaker line, was this offered to you? Or would it benefit you?

As you know I have been offered it but I understand that mine is to balance out the rhythm of the heart and that the bypass was for the blockage { to bad for stents in my case}

I hope you remain as positive as you post.

Take care

[Nettekin in reply to Hidden]

Are "lager stents" strictly allowed for us hearties? 😁 x

[Hidden in reply to Nettekin]

LOL bloody spelling !

[Prada47 in reply to Hidden]

I will ask about the lager stents I will definitely op for them just think they maybe able to keep me topped up every day lolI do meet the criteria for a pacemaker but they now think it would only be a marginal improvement so trying the lager stent route before anything else. The Cardio did say he thought this may be the last intervention. Always on the lookout for new meds or new interventions and now it is documented that I will try anything that's going, maybe it will help !!

Just keep popping the pills and as long as I keep waking up everyday I am Happy The alternative is not on my list of considerations. LOL

Best Regards