How long do stents last in an artery?
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I haven't heard of one being pushed out. The older ones used to clog but now they are coated with drugs that prevent that.
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Coronary arteries (left and right). They branch from the ascending aorta just after its start. These arteries fill with blood during diastole.\nFor more detailed information on their anatomy see:\nhttp://mywebpages.comcast.net/wnor/thoraxlesson4.htm\nhttp://www.clevelandclinic.org/heartcenter/pub/guide/disease/cad/cad_arteries.htm\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronary_artery\nhttp://www.hsforum.com/stories/storyReader$1480
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I wouldn't worry about it.  When I used to have them, they always lasted 7 days.  Gosh, that was always a really long week.
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A heart attack is also known as a myocardial infarction (myo=muscle, cardial=heart, infarction=starving of oxygen and dying).  A heart attack occurs when plaque builds up in the arteries on the outside of the heart, feeding the heart muscle.  \n\nAn inflamatory process occurs causing the plaque to rupture within the artery.  A part of plaque either moves down stream or a clot forms at the rupture point and/or moves down stream.  When a sudden blockage occurs in one of the arteries, it deprives the muscle of oxygen.  Death of the heart muscle cell begins without oxygen and starts to release chemicals that can be detected in the blood stream.  The sooner the blockage can be relieved either by clot busting medications or by an urgent angioplasty the better the prognosis is for the patient.  In adddition to the length of time that the blockage occurs, the placement (which of the arteries) is key is establishing the long term damage and prognosis for a patient.  Certain arteries supply more important areas of the heart than other arteries.  These days many patients who have heart attacks, are in the hospital for a few days and are on a normal regimen within 6 weeks.  \n\nIf immediate help is not obtained, the damaged heart is irritable and can begin a rhythm that is not compatible with life, called ventricular tachycardia.  This is why defibrillators are becoming more available in places like airplanes and malls, to use electricity to shock the heart out of that fatal rhythm.
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you hit the nail on the head, each case is different. A small aneurysm can be done and out of the hospital the next day. Some people never recover from a larger one. My take on it is that it can't be too big, if they are waiting a whole month
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On average, periods last 4 to 6 days. It really depends on the person. Some have really short ones like 2 days and others really long ones like 7 or even 8. If it last for a longer period of time, ask your doctor about it.
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There are minimally invasive interventional procedures such as percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty(ptca),and intravascular radiotherapy.I have 3 stents and they made a small cut in my arm to implant them.I was in and out of the hospital in 24 hours.But I have to take blood thinner for the rest of my life.(I should have taken the 120grand and died happy with a nice sportscar.)I don't think there are any noninvasive ways.In some cases meds & a low fat,low sat.fat diet can help, but does not clear the blockage alone.A healthy diet & no smoking.(which I still do) helps.Good luck.
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I had a broken vessel a few years ago that took about 3 weeks to completely resolve.  I think you can expect it to last at least 2 weeks and probably up to a month.
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Probably.\n\nNot everyone with coronary artery disease has symptoms.\n\nIf a person's disease was uncovered as the result of a routine physical exam, and they had never experienced chest pain, they might find it hard to believe that stenting had been necessary.\n\nIt would probably be helpful if more doctors showed their patients images from the fluoroscopic recording, so they could see that the vessel had been narrowed, and that it had improved after stenting.\n\nA person who received a stent should definitely continue taking their prescribed medications, to keep the stent from becoming blocked.
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My dad is going through the same problem right now.  He had a scan done, and they are setting up for the vascular surgeon to go in and put in a stent.  He has had this done once before, we were told too much plaque build-up, cholesteral.  He is on Lipitor for that, but the Dr. said it HAS to be done!!  His other side is blocked 80%!!  So try to get in touch with your family Dr. to get set-up for tests ASAP to get a professional problem.  Someone go with the patient to write things down because the patient is usually pretty stressed out to remember what was said!!  Good Luck for Good Health.
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This is serious, that artery is a main artery from your heart and you should definitely talk to your MD for more info.  You don't want this to become loose, an embolus where it can travel to your heart, lungs, or brain.
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My Dad had a heart cath done to see where his blockage was.  He had so many they decided that stents would not be for him so they did bypass surgery on him.  Here is more on it.  \n\n\nIn most cases, cardiac catheterization is recommended when a partial or complete arterial blockage is suspected. It is used to evaluate how well the heart is functioning and to obtain information about blockages. \n\nCardiac catheterization is performed in a hospital. Usually, the procedure takes 2 to 3 hours to perform and patients are required to remain immobile for 4 to 6 hours following cardiac catheterization. \n\nIndications \nIndications for the procedure include the following: \n\nAngina that is not easily controlled with medication, that disrupts daily routine, occurs at rest, or recurs after heart attack \nHeart failure with suspected coronary artery disease \nHeart valve disease with symptoms (e.g., shortness of breath) \nMarkedly abnormal stress test results \nRecurring chest pain of unidentified cause \nNot everyone with angina needs a cardiac catheterization. Patients who have very rare or easily controlled episodes of angina may desire to continue with medical therapy rather than undergo angioplasty or bypass surgery. Many patients who have suffered a heart attack can initially undergo a stress test rather than cardiac catheterization. \nCardiac catheterization usually is not performed in patients who have infrequent episodes of angina (chest pain) or angina that is easily controlled.
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It has that as a possibility if taken over a long peroid of time.  Most rx's are for 5 days which usually doesn't cause a problem.
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do you mean angioplasty? \n\nAngioplasty\n\n\nAngioplasty is a procedure done to open a partially blocked blood vessel so that blood can flow through it more easily. It is most often done on arteries that deliver blood to the heart (coronary arteries) when they are narrowed by plaque buildup (atherosclerosis) or blood clots.\n\nDuring the angioplasty procedure, a thin flexible tube (catheter) is inserted through an artery in the groin or arm and carefully guided into the artery that is narrowed. Once the tube reaches the narrowed artery, a small balloon at the end of the tube is inflated. The balloon may remain inflated from 20 seconds to 3 minutes. The pressure from the inflated balloon presses fat and calcium deposits (plaque) against the wall of the artery to improve blood flow.\n\nOnce the fat and calcium buildup is compressed, a small, expandable wire-mesh tube called a stent is sometimes inserted into the artery to hold it open. Reclosure (restenosis) of the artery is less likely to occur after angioplasty with stenting than after angioplasty \n\nbasically they insert a tub up and artery and make the artery open up and sometimes a stent is needed to keep it opened depending on how block the artery is. \n\nMy husband is a heart patient.  I saw them performing this procedure on him while they where doing it.  you can actually see the heart pumping and the flowing of the blood better after it is done.
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What type of orchid are you referring at?  Generally speaking, some orchids can last more than a week.  Its all depend in which country you are referring at.  I wish I can give you more information.
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About 3 years.  If you are a doctor, maybe less, but the correct answers are in the websites here.\n\nSee below.
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I am also 50 something and have already had a clogged artery in the heart that required a stent.\n\nSimple diet modifications can help. Just doing away with most meat and eating losts of fruit brought down my cholesterol from the 220-240 range to the 190s.\n\nHaving found out my problem in an airplane at 29000 feet I can say from firsthand experience that this would be a horrible way to die. It is not necessarily slow and it scares the daylights out of you. After the blockage was treated it took me several years to get over anxiety stemming from it.\n\nLet your Dad know that he does not have to die from this. He may be thinking it is genetic and that there is not much you can do to control it. This is not true many times.\n\nMy advice is to start doing everything natural that you can. I do not know if it is true but there is one article that claims Bromelain (you can get it at a natural helath food store) will clear your arteries. One lady took it and had a followup angiogram that showed no blockage. I had some pain in my back once and it went away not long after I took Bromelain. Maybe it was all in my head but I doubt it. It is a natural anti inflammatory , digests protein and helps keep the blood from clotting. Obviously if cholesterol is high you should follow a Doctor's advice for lowering it. Some Doctors are enlightened about using natural substances to help.\n\nRegardless of what else he does , tell him to eat 5 pieces of fruit a day. The pectin in the fruit binds with the cholsesterol and flushes some of it out.