Serious and fatal cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases such as coronary heart disease, cerebral infarction, and myocardial infarction are based on atherosclerosis, excessive stenosis and blockage.
Therefore, in everyone's mind, it has been conceived that there can be a treatment that can expand the narrow blood vessels again, and the disease will not be cured?
In fact, this idea has long been realized in the clinic, presumably everyone has heard of the "heart stent" surgery, it is not to place a stent on the heart, but through surgery to place the stent with the blood circulation in the original blocked and overly narrow blood vessels, so that the coronary arteries are expanded again, which is one of the rescue methods for treating myocardial infarction, atypical angina, and coronary artery overclogging.
Nearly 20% of all patients with coronary heart disease in China need to undergo stent surgery. However, there are many patients with coronary heart disease or myocardial infarction who have obviously placed stents according to the doctor's recommendations, but often feel that the heart is uncomfortable.
1. Psychological factors
Some patients do not know enough about the treatment method of coronary stents, and repeatedly worry about the safety of stents before surgery, after all, this is something from outside the body, and it is in an important position in the heart, so they are full of concerns about it.
This ignorant psychology has been bothering themselves, even if the operation has been successful, there is still ambiguity about the stent placed in the body, and they are scared of themselves and psychological hints, which will cause discomfort in the body, such as chest tightness and shortness of breath, panic, etc.;
2, there is no adaptation
After the stent is placed into the coronary vein, the blood supply of the heart has returned to normal, but many of the symptoms caused by myocardial ischemia are not relieved in an instant. Even if the damage to the heart muscle is not serious, it takes a period of conditioning to fully recover.
Therefore, it is actually reasonable to have symptoms of physical discomfort after surgery. When the body gradually adapts and slowly recovers, this discomfort will gradually disappear;
3. Heart failure
After all myocardial infarctions, some patients can survive the crisis of life, and some patients die of myocardial infarction, and the most fundamental reason is the timing of rescue. If the patient is sent to the hospital late, the heart muscle is severely necrotic and heart failure has already occurred.
Even if the passage of the coronary vein has been opened, but due to problems with the myocardium, it will leave different degrees of sequelae, and the necrotic myocardium cannot return to normal;
4. Other diseases
Cardiac stent surgery is not a panacea, it just expands the original narrow or blocked blood vessels, for coronary heart disease, other diseases, cardiac stents do not have the ability to treat. Therefore, even if the patient has stent surgery, the patient may be unwell due to other primary diseases;
5. Blood vessel blockage
The cardiac stent is only a local treatment, it does not cure coronary atherosclerosis, it just unclogs a blood vessel. If other arterial blood vessels become narrowed and blocked again, it can also cause heart discomfort.
All in all, stent surgery does not solve the problem from the root, it is just a means of rescue. If after the stent surgery, you still feel uncomfortable in the heart, especially if you have sudden angina, dyspnea, shock and other symptoms, this is likely to be another episode of myocardial infarction, and the patient needs to seek medical treatment in time so as not to miss the best rescue time for the disease.