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What Causes Dizziness While After Insertion Of Cardiac Stent?
My husband had a cardiac stent in Nov. no MI and has been on Brilinta and ASA since. He has been having these dizzy spells and almost passing out. Even when sitting. Went to ER. Did stress test did not so anything. My concern is that it is from the Brilinta . But they won t take him off of it
Wed, 18 Mar 2015
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If this is cardiac condition and history of fainting then this could be due to some cerebral circulation insufficiency may be likely and for that is advisable to get done the CT of brain, ECHO may be necessary, hope this information helps, take care.
Well come to HCM
If this is cardiac condition and history of fainting then this could be due to some cerebral circulation insufficiency may be likely and for that is advisable to get done the CT of brain, ECHO may be necessary, hope this information helps, take care.
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