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How To Cure Upper Arm Pain And Tightness Around Neck After Having A Angioplasty?
my husband had angioplasty a couple of weeks ago, when he had the heart attack he had been having upper outside arm pain and a pulling feeling around his neck, he had 2 stints put in he is still having the same pain especially upon any exzertion or stress , he feels like he is still having a heart attack . any help would be great. thank you
Fri, 23 Dec 2016
Symptoms you are mentioning are suggestive of Heart ischemia. so he must some more blocks in his arteries causing his problem. Put stents might have opened the blockages in one artery but we have three arteries. sometimes there may be blockage in small arteries which can be treated with nitrates.
so you can ask your treating physician to optimize your therapy to increase antianginal drugs. if needed stent in other arteries, or
repeat angiography to look for patency of the prior stent. sometimes the stent may get blocked leading to symptoms
so you can ask your treating physician to optimize your therapy to increase antianginal drugs. if needed stent in other arteries, or
repeat angiography to look for patency of the prior stent. sometimes the stent may get blocked leading to symptoms
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