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Is Knee Surgery Safe To Have When Diagnosed With Diabetes And Heart Failure?
My name is Linus Mathiowetz. I have a protruding stomach, am overweight, diabetic, a-fib, congestive heart failure, and an aneurism. I am 79 years old and on more medications than days in a month. I need knee surgery, but am told that my heart won t take it. How can I get rid of some of the weight and not be hungry all the time?
Mon, 28 Nov 2016
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I have gone through your query. You should get a consultation with cardiologist as well as anaesthesiologist. If your parameters are within normal limits or you can withstand spinal anaesthesia then you can go for knee surgery.
Hope this may help you. Let me know if anything not clear.
Thanks.
Thank you for asking HCM.
I have gone through your query. You should get a consultation with cardiologist as well as anaesthesiologist. If your parameters are within normal limits or you can withstand spinal anaesthesia then you can go for knee surgery.
Hope this may help you. Let me know if anything not clear.
Thanks.
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