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To: MWestMom

Not to alarm you or anything, but my dad went in for an angioplasty and they pushed a clot through before the heparin was in full effect. Stroked out on the table.

That was a number of years ago and I don’t know if high dose heparin is still a pretreatment.

This is just for your information and my dad made a 90-95% recovery from the stroke. And he’s still going good at 77.

Take it as a suggestion as a question to ask.

It turned out that a second opinion, after the fact, determined bypass surgery was what was needed, not an angioplasty.

Prayers Up!


9 posted on 01/01/2011 1:51:41 AM PST by bigheadfred (As a rapturous voice escapes I will tremble a prayer and I'll ask for forgiveness...)
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To: bigheadfred

I work with these patient post procedure. Complications with stents are rare and I’m sure the docs know what they’re doing.


21 posted on 01/01/2011 5:30:37 AM PST by whershey
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