Is stent good or bad for heart patients? Listen to the opinion of a cardiologist.

As a doctor, we often hear patients ask such questions. For heart patients, installing stents is one of their treatments. Is this way good or bad? Let's explore together.

Cardiac stent, also known as coronary stent, is the most commonly used instrument in cardiac interventional surgery and also the commonly used method to treat coronary heart disease. It dilates narrow blood vessels through physical attraction. When our health arteries become narrow, it will affect the blood supply to the heart. Especially when our activity is increasing, the demand for oxygen in myocardium will be greater than that in coronary artery, which will cause heart pain, angina pectoris and myocardial infarction. Only when our blood vessels are more than 70% narrow is it suitable to install heart stents.

In this case, we usually install a heart stent. Heart stent is to create a shadow agent for the heart first, so that we can find out the position of the blocked heart artery through observation and display. After finding this position, we can puncture the arterial blood vessels of the wrist, then introduce the inflatable balloon catheter with stent into the body and send it to the blocked cardiac artery, and then inflate the balloon to open the stent, which will have a certain supporting effect on the blood vessels.

At this time, the airway with balloon is deflated and pumped out, so that the stent is stably fixed in the blood vessel. Only through such treatment can we control the disease well and save the patient's life.

In general, only when our heart is blocked by more than 70% will our doctor recommend patients to have heart stent surgery. Since patients are advised to have stent surgery, it must be a better one among all treatment schemes. After all, it is in line with patients' own conditions. China's medical equipment will certainly seek the best support, and our doctors will give patients the most appropriate advice. This is also called the income-risk ratio.

1, psychological effect

For many heart patients, they are reluctant to implant stents. Because for them, stents are foreign bodies, and it is unacceptable for them to put foreign bodies in the heart.

But in fact, when stents are implanted in the body, most of them belong to metal stents, which are sterile and will not cause harm to the body. Instead, it will grow with the inner wall of our blood vessels, and the patient will basically feel nothing. Therefore, combined with the patient's own symptoms, stent is a first-aid treatment.

Step 2 take medicine for life

Some patients think that once the stent is implanted in the body, they should take medicine for life and can't leave. But in fact, if you are a patient with coronary heart disease, you should take medicine whether you do stent or not. The antiplatelet drugs we take protect our nails to some extent and prevent them from becoming restenosis, on the other hand, they also prevent the occurrence or progress of other vascular stenosis. In fact, we need to take Tigray or Clopidogrel for another year after stent surgery, but those patients without stents need to take it for life.

3. Operational risk

Other patients think that implanting stents in the body is very risky. But this is an operation. How can there be no risk? Everything has certain risks, but with the improvement of medical level and the update of technology in China, the level of stents in China is getting higher and higher, and the risk is only a few percent.

Now the country strongly advocates reducing the cost of our stents, in order to let more patients get timely treatment and afford life-saving drugs.

4. Quality of life

As doctors, in clinical experimental diagnosis and subsequent follow-up, we can find that patients who have done cardiac stent not only save lives, improve the symptoms of myocardial ischemia and myocardial injury, but also eliminate pain, improve cardiac function and improve the quality of life.

We all know that patients with coronary heart disease can't sleep every night, always worry about their physical condition, can't do sports, can't play ball, even have no mood, have no interest in life, and their quality of life is getting worse. After the heart stent is made, there is no strange feeling in the body and I am full of confidence in the future.

We doctors and patients all know that any operation is risky. Cardiac stent surgery is to clear the blockage of a certain part of the body or blood vessel, but stent surgery does not mean that this blood vessel or this part will no longer be blocked. So after stent surgery, we must keep these points in mind:

1, take medicine on time after stent operation.

After all, cardiac stent surgery only helps some blood vessels to re-circulate blood and rebuild blood delivery channels. Therefore, anticoagulants should be used at the same time for at least one year after stent implantation to reduce the risk of heart disease recurrence.

2. Pay attention to life and diet.

We often see that many patients relapse after cardiac stent implantation because of their living habits. If you often stay up late, overeat, don't exercise, smoke and drink, and have a bad temper, you may relapse to a great extent.

Therefore, according to the patient's blood vessel blockage, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages for the patient himself. After all, our doctor's duty is to save lives.

In fact, the stent itself has no harm to our body, but it will fuse with our blood vessel wall and alleviate the pain caused by the disease. As long as we can pay attention to the combination of daily diet and medication, such surgery is generally no problem and is the most suitable for patients.