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Is It Safe To Do A Heart Bypass Surgery For A Kidney Patient?
In anticipating coronary heart bypass,are there steps we should be taking now to improve a peritonel diaylsis patients diaylsis effectiveness, or does that have to wait for the heart bypass surgery to be done first. The patient has kidney disease and is in Victoria Hospital in London, Ont. right now after having an angiogram this afternoon. Patient was told that he needs a open heart bypass surgery after his angiogram. The patient is my husband Eric Hardy. Sandra Hardy
Fri, 15 Jul 2016
Hello Sandra
If his doctors consider the bypass as an urgent situation then no problem with doing it now and then working on the dialysis situation.
If the cardiac condition is not urgent, then the dialysis situation can be addressed first
If his doctors consider the bypass as an urgent situation then no problem with doing it now and then working on the dialysis situation.
If the cardiac condition is not urgent, then the dialysis situation can be addressed first
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