Small Vessel Cornoary Artery Disease?!
Question: Can someone tell me why is it nothing that could be done about this. I'm afraid of having a heart attack or stroke. I'm on meds for it and I do carry my nitroquick with me everywhere and i take a long acting one everymorning. I know it's still research being done to come up with the best treatment. do anyone else have this and what is being done for it.
Answers: Can someone tell me why is it nothing that could be done about this. I'm afraid of having a heart attack or stroke. I'm on meds for it and I do carry my nitroquick with me everywhere and i take a long acting one everymorning. I know it's still research being done to come up with the best treatment. do anyone else have this and what is being done for it.
I have small vessel coronary artery disease and I have had a 5 artery by pass open heart surgery 8 years ago. I was still having a lot of chest pain and they said that it was because of the small vessels. I then went through a procedure called EECP. It really helped to increase the blood flow to my heart and my cardiologist was thrilled with the results. The treatment lasts for 7 weeks and you have to go 5 days a week for that 7 weeks without missing. All they do is put you on a table and put blood pressure cuffs around your calves, your thighs and your buttocks and then the machine inflates and squeezes your lower extremities and sends blood back up to your heart while it is at rest, making the smaller arteries on the outside of your heart expand and it also makes you have new vessels to form. It is not uncomfortable at all and the nurse who did my treatment was AWESOME and very knowledgeable about the procedure. I could tell a difference in how I felt, I had more energy because of the increased blood flow and I lost 15 lbs during the procedure. It is basically passive exercise for you as you just lay there and the machine does all the work. I highly suggest it for anyone with this disease and also for anyone who is experiencing angina frequently.
these vessels are difficult to be STENTED and so the only line of management is by DRUGS!!
all the best
The vessels involved are too small to be bypassed or stented. The only available intervention is medication. The good news is because they vessels are small if worse came to worse and a heart attack occurred it would be correspondingly very small as well.
STENTS ARE B.S. YOU NEED CHELATION THERAPY, IT DOES WORK , AND IT WILL HELP ALL OF YOUR VEINS AND ARTERIES. RESEARCH THE FACTS(EDTA, VITAMIN C, HYDROGEN PEROXIDE)