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Originally posted by BlackCrayon
yep, kinda. an angiogram is where they inject the dye to locate the blockage if any. the angioplasty is where they go in with a catheter and use a ballon to widen the blocked atery and sometimes instert a stent, they suggested my dad get a stent put in. often times when a stent isn't used the ateries just close back up again. angioplasty is nothing compared to bypass surgery, thats for sure. good to hear your brother hasn't had any problems sumphat. there is something like a 92% success rate with angioplasty, tho there is still apparently a 10% chance of a mild heart attack or damage to the heart during the procedure which is worrysome.
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Thanks for putting me straight - I have to admit that at the time I wasn't paying an aweful lot of attention. I was 52 at the time and had been in good health up until then - my father died at 54 from heart problems - so a lot of stuff they told me sort of got filtered.
It was interesting that they found nothing wrong and not long after that the chest pains went away and haven't come back.