For middle-aged and elderly friends, what they are most worried about is cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, but in recent years, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases are indeed frequent, and things like cerebral infarction and thrombosis are also common, and the incidence of heart disease is increasing every year.
Now medical technology is more and more developed. When it comes to coronary heart disease, the first treatment that people think of is heart stent. In recent years, cardiac stents have been used more and more. It seems that this has become a minor operation. According to statistics, millions of people in China receive heart stents every year.
Cardiac stent, also known as coronary stent, is a commonly used medical instrument in cardiac interventional surgery. In this way, blood vessels can be dilated, narrow blood vessels or blocked blood vessels can be opened, and blood circulation can be smoother.
Is it a serious illness to do a heart stent?
As mentioned above, millions of people receive heart stents every year. Because this operation is very common, it seems to be a minor operation for doctors. Once there is a problem with coronary heart disease, many hospitals will recommend heart stents, but not all patients with coronary heart disease need heart stents. After all, our body has its own immune system, so it also has rejection, and heart stent is an obligation, so it is also implanted into blood vessels.
So what conditions do you need to meet to make a heart stent?
1. If the patient has moderate or severe coronary artery stenosis, the success rate of cardiac stent implantation is higher at this time, which can better reduce the mortality rate.
2. ECG showed acute coronary syndrome with ST segment elevation.
3. Unstable angina pectoris and acute myocardial infarction without ST segment elevation.
4. Stable angina pectoris still recurs after drug treatment, and there is a phenomenon that one or more major blood vessels are narrowed by more than 50%.
Because these conditions may cause severe myocardial ischemia and necrosis in patients, and may even induce heart failure, or the heart stops beating, which seriously threatens our life safety, so if these conditions are used as cardiac stents, it is a serious illness.
Moreover, the cost of heart stent surgery is relatively high. A heart stent needs tens of thousands, which does not mean that ordinary families can afford it. In addition, a series of hospitalization expenses may be as high as hundreds of thousands, which is a huge expense for ordinary families. Although many major diseases have been included in the scope of medical insurance reimbursement, heart stents for heart diseases have not been included so far.
Of course, if your condition is not serious enough, you can choose not to have a heart stent after you are diagnosed with coronary heart disease, and then you must change your lifestyle. First, we must quit smoking and drinking, quit bad eating habits and living habits, and insist on taking medicine according to the doctor's advice. If your condition continues to deteriorate after these changes, you will have to choose a heart stent.