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Suggest Treatment For Congestive Heart Failure
My 57 year old cousin was admitted to the hospital last week with congestive heart failure and was told only 20 percent of his heart was functioning. Turns out he has all kinds of blockages all over his body. They had to put in four stents including one in the coronary artery before they could do bypass surgery today. He needs three bypasses but they were only able to do two. Before surgery, he was told that they wanted to do more stents this week as soon as he recovered from the bypass surgery. What kind of prognosis do you think my cousin has?
Mon, 24 Dec 2018
Hello,
After going through your medical query I understand your concern and I would like to tell you that 20% ejection fraction is very low to survive and patient admits with heart failure again and again.
ICD device can help a bit if your cousin can make out for that surgery kindly consult with your cardiologist regarding this.
Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.
Regards,
Dr. Bhanu Partap,
Cardiologist
After going through your medical query I understand your concern and I would like to tell you that 20% ejection fraction is very low to survive and patient admits with heart failure again and again.
ICD device can help a bit if your cousin can make out for that surgery kindly consult with your cardiologist regarding this.
Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.
Regards,
Dr. Bhanu Partap,
Cardiologist
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