I often hear stories of a guy who has a heart attack and come to find out that 95% of a major blood vessel to the heart was clogged.
How is this not picked up earlier during normal exams? Why isn’t it?
Can’t they do radiation shots to see where the blood flows or whatever?
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My father-in-law had open heart surgery for a double bypass and the doctor mentioned afterward that they could feel a big chunk of hard plaque in another artery.
Someone asked if they removed it or did anything, and the doctor just stopped and stared at us.
Like it was the dumbest question ever.
He explained it was such a delicate surgery, and he was in such a precarious situation, it could have killed him to cut more and interfere. Apparently it’s not that easy to remove.
But we got a few more years with him, he got to see his grandchildren who were both born after that surgery.
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