Contents:
- Medical Video: 10 Warning Signs Your Heart Isn't Working Properly
- Is that a stent or heart ring?
- The danger of attaching a heart ring that is not really needed
- Consider this before deciding to install a heart ring
- 1. Am I at risk of having a heart attack?
- 2. Am I experiencing acute coronary syndrome?
- 3. Are there other treatment alternatives that can be used?
Medical Video: 10 Warning Signs Your Heart Isn't Working Properly
Attaching a heart ring or heart stent is the most commonly used method for treating coronary heart disease. Installing this heart ring serves to help widen the blocked blood vessels due to accumulated fat, so that the oxygen needs of the heart organs are still fulfilled.
Paired heart rings are believed to prevent heart attacks and even reduce the risk of death. However, what if the heart ring is placed on someone who has not had a heart attack and only wants to prevent the risk of a heart attack? What are the risks for health? See the full explanation below.
Is that a stent or heart ring?
A heart ring is a small tube made of metal or plastic and made of wire like a net. Installing this heart ring can help open the coronary arteries in the blocked heart so that the heart can return to receive an adequate blood supply. In the end, this is expected to reduce the possibility of someone having a heart attack.
The danger of attaching a heart ring that is not really needed
Most cardiologists report that patients who have a heart ring tend to feel better and look healthier. Even some of his patients believe that the procedure to install a heart ring can prevent it from a heart attack and death.
However, according to a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine in 2007, stenting was not certain to prevent a heart attack. Although hard to believe, finally many similar studies began to be carried out to help prove it.
Quoted from the page of the New York Times, a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine in 2012 has observed that three patients were stable after experiencing a heart attack and five other patients who had stable angina but had not had a heart attack.
The result, pairs of heart rings did not provide any impact, not even help prevent heart attacks in patients with stable coronary heart disease. But in this study it is difficult to know whether the heart ring can indeed relieve pain.
Although there are many people who think that pairs of heart rings can prevent heart disease in healthy people, experts say otherwise. Experts reveal that attaching heart rings to people who don't have heart disease will only make blood flow and heart function impaired.
The risk that arises can be severe bleeding to an allergic reaction after the ring is paired. Instead of being useful, attaching a heart ring that doesn't fit your needs endangers you.
Consider this before deciding to install a heart ring
If the doctor does advise you to install a heart ring, the doctor will certainly explain various things about the heart ring in detail. You, as a patient, have the right to give a number of questions before agreeing to a doctor's recommendation.
Therefore, first ask these three things to the doctor to better convince you before putting up a heart ring:
1. Am I at risk of having a heart attack?
Before deciding to install a heart ring, ask your doctor first about your chances of having a heart attack. If you are in the early stages of an acute heart attack, then attaching a heart ring needs to be done immediately to stop damage to the heart muscle.
In addition, the procedure for installing a heart ring can also help reduce heart defects and reduce the risk of death. If this question is answered "yes", immediately ask the next question below.
2. Am I experiencing acute coronary syndrome?
If you experience acute coronary syndrome (ACS), the doctor will do a cardiac record with an electrocardiography device. If the heart record results lead to a diagnosis of ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI), then you need immediate medical treatment with the installation of a heart ring.
The ring of the heart functions to keep blood flow normal, so that the heart's function will not be disturbed. If this question is answered "yes", then it is certain that you need a heart ring procedure, without having to proceed to the next question.
3. Are there other treatment alternatives that can be used?
If you've headed to question number 3, then this means you don't have an acute heart attack. In other words, you experience coronary artery disease (CAD) which is quite stable so that the installation of a heart ring does not need to be done in the near future.
So, you can still have plenty of time to consider your treatment options.
