Cardiac stents as the name suggests is to build a soft stent in the heart, cardiac stents, also known as coronary stents, is the most commonly used medical device in cardiac interventional surgery, in the past few years due to the high price of cardiac stents, by many people strong resistance, good in our government actively intervened, the cost of cardiac stent surgery from the incalculable sky-high price to the people can afford the price.
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【Case Study】
Mr. Wang, who lives in the northeast, is 64 years old this year, Mr. Wang and his wife jointly opened a seafood restaurant, after more than ten years of hard work, Mr. Wang's life is prosperous, seeing that his children have long been established, Mr. Wang feels that it is time to retire.
Just a few days ago, just when Mr. Wang was planning to pass on the seafood shop to his son, he suddenly felt flustered, breathless, and beads of sweat appeared on his forehead, which looked very serious, and the family rushed to dial 120 to send Mr. Wang to the hospital.
After coming to the hospital, the medical staff did an electrocardiogram examination for Mr. Wang, and found that it was an acute anterior wall myocardial infarction, which led to an increase in troponin in Mr. Wang's body, inducing heart disease, and the doctor asked for heart stent surgery immediately.
Mr. Wang's family does not understand this very much, in his daily life, Mr. Wang's body has always been hard, how can he suddenly suffer from heart disease?
In fact, the family, not do not believe in the doctor, but feel that there is no need to do cardiac stent surgery, after all, the foreign body is easily placed in whose body, will not be easily accepted, plus, Mr. Wang's neighbor is because of the accidental death after the heart stent surgery, which also aggravated the psychological pressure of the family, do not know whether to do it or not.
After consultation, Mr. Wang's family decided to give up heart stent surgery, and shortly after being discharged from the hospital, Mr. Wang suddenly suffered from heart failure and died due to ineffective rescue.
There are many patients like Mr. Wang who refuse to do cardiac stent surgery, and they have always maintained a very repulsive attitude towards cardiac stent surgery, believing that cardiac stent surgery is harmful.
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Who must have a heart stent?
1. Patients with severe angina pectoris
Angina is a very serious heart disease, patients will have obvious heart pain, serious situation, even unable to breathe on their own, unable to complete normal physiological activities, the cause of the attack is because of cardiac ischemia and hypoxia, resulting in pathological manifestations, want to alleviate this problem, you can install heart stent surgery, with medication, can effectively cure heart pain.
2. Patients with myocardial infarction
Myocardial infarction is one of the most common heart diseases, patients with such heart diseases must complete cardiac stent surgery as soon as possible, so that the blood of the heart is fully supplied, to avoid myocardial ischemia and hypoxia, inducing cardiac arrest, life-threatening.
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How long can I live after the cardiac stent is installed? The doctor no longer hides it, and refer it to the family
(1) The patient's own physical fitness and age
Patients who have completed cardiac stent surgery are speculated to live for many years, depending on the patient's own physical fitness and age, if the patient is older, the time to survive will naturally be relatively reduced.
As long as you change your lifestyle according to the doctor's guidance, health will surely come to you.
(2) Whether to change the lifestyle
Patients who install cardiac stent surgery need to change their bad lifestyle in time, please try to eat as light as possible, eat less greasy and spicy food, reasonably control personal weight, develop the good habit of going to bed early and getting up early, maintain an optimistic attitude, and don't lose your temper for a little trivial matter.
After the installation of heart stent surgery, many people will feel that they are safe, so they will continue to live uncontrolled regardless of it, which will only aggravate the development of the disease and pose a great threat to their own life safety.
(3) Whether to take the medicine on time
Patients who have done cardiac stent surgery must take medication on time according to the doctor's guidance, and after cleaning up the operation, they need to take anticoagulant drugs for about a year continuously to avoid blood clotting and reduce the occurrence of postoperative complications, in addition to taking aspirin or other drugs for a long time to promote blood flow.
During the medication period, even if the values of the body have stabilized, it is not possible to blindly increase or decrease the dosage without authorization, otherwise it will cause extremely strong pressure on the heart and blood vessels, affect the aggravation of health, and the incidence of postoperative infections and complications.
How many years can I live after the heart stent surgery is installed? The specific situation also needs to be comprehensively analyzed and judged from the above 3 points of the patient, but there is no doubt that cardiac stent surgery must be a medical technology that benefits patients and saves lives.
What are your thoughts on cardiac stent surgery? Do you feel: Is it harmful or saving? #健康科普行 #