by Carolyn Thomas ♥ @HeartSisters
If you’re a heart patient who has had one or more coronary stents implanted, I think you’ll like this history lesson about how such a small device ended up inside your beating heart – with thanks to the Journal of Clinical Medicine and the British Medical Bulletin for much of this lesson.1
Continue reading “A fascinating history of your coronary stent”
by Carolyn Thomas ♥ @HeartSisters
Remember last month when I covered the topic of “stretch pain” in heart patients who have had a coronary stent implanted?
To recap, temporary post-stent stretch pain in the chest is considered to be due to the dilation (stretching) of an artery while a metal stent is being implanted inside that artery, and it typically occurs in about 40 per cent of stent patients.1 A number of you wrote in with some variation of this question: “Is it still stretch pain if it’s happening months afterwards?”
And now a new study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology suggests that something entirely different might be going on.2 Continue reading “Coronary stents: interventions that come with a cost”
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