Mr AD was suffering from symptoms of angina (chest pain due to an inadequate blood supply to the heart).
He had a coronary angiogram that revealed narrowing in blood vessel supplying the heart that was causing his symptoms. It demonstrated severe narrowing of the left circumflex coronary artery.
He went on to have this treated by percutaneous (through the blood vessel in the right arm) coronary angioplasty.
This was performed by relieving the narrowing with balloons initially followed by deployment of two drug eluting stents (3mm and 2.5mm diameter) to his left circumflex coronary artery. The stents were optimised with intravascular ultrasound.
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I had angioplasty today So I'm going to ask you three questions, so if that's ok The first one is can you tell us your experience of this procedure? My experience was really good I'm happy and I felt ok And the second question is Is there anything that you would tell a prospective patient who is going to have this procedure? Okay, what I can tell a prospective patient is that don't be scared because last night I didn't sleep well. I was thinking about it. I was thinking about the pain that normally I have in my chest. If during the procedure I'm going to have the same pain or more than that, I was thinking about that, but it was actually smooth, I didn't feel no much pain. And lastly sir, was there anything during the procedure that occurred which was unexpected? Nothing really, nothing occurred during the procedure which was unexpected, a bit of pain in my chest and that's it. And how long did the pain last for, was it for a short period? for a short period and the doctors they were telling me to expect it okay so it was they were they were doing things that yeah okay
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