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Will a stent help for Heart Failure?
A stent is a metal or plastic tube inserted into the lumen of a heart artery to keep the passage open. In this video, Dr. Sunthar tells us what patients may benefit from a stent depending on the cause of their heart failure.
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Not all patients with heart failure will benefit from a coronary stent. There are different causes to heart failure and if the cause of your heart failure is because of a narrowing in a heart artery or a narrowing in multiple heart arteries, then it may well be that putting stents in those different arteries may help the overall heart function. But let's say you have heart failure because of alcohol. Stents won't help the heart function improve. Or let's say you have heart failure because of certain medications that you've taken for other conditions. Again, stents won't help the heart muscle improve. So depending on the cause of of heart failure, the treatment is varied.
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