Do heart stents shorten your life?

Do heart stents shorten your life?

Summary: While the placement of stents in newly reopened coronary arteries has been shown to reduce the need for repeat angioplasty procedures, researchers from the Duke Clinical Research Institute have found that stents have no impact on mortality over the long term.

When to do CABG if you have a stent?

this sequence to show you that , if you have a stent or more , so you still have the chance to do CABG later on if one of these stents has complications . 1- lifespan of stents varies from 5-10 years according the type of the stent .

What is the failure rate of stents to stay open?

That said, there is about a 10-15% failure rate of stents to stay open and more than 40% of patients with a stent will need another procedure within a year, despite the use of expensive medications. This is in sharp contrast with a bypass operation that has a >95% success rate.

When was the first stent planted in the heart?

The first time a stent was planted in a patient was in 1980. The original stents sometimes function normally and well up several years from the day the patient went under angioplasty to get the stent panted in his heart muscles.

Are there any new heart stents on the market?

There is a new product on the market, a new heart stent that dissolves in the artery three years after being implanted. It is yet to be used in clinically, and it will be a while (years) before its risks & benefits will be known. (From: Scrutiny of Stent Problems Turns to Doctors, WSJ, May 29, 2007)

What happens in the first year of a stent?

Some people get a stent and end up having problems immediately. Some people go the rest of their life with never a problem. Stent restenosis and stent thrombosis are the two major issues in the first year. Stent restenosis is when your body is too enthusiastic in building tissue over the stent and end up clogging it with new cells.

this sequence to show you that , if you have a stent or more , so you still have the chance to do CABG later on if one of these stents has complications . 1- lifespan of stents varies from 5-10 years according the type of the stent .

Are there any problems with new stents in the future?

There is no way of knowing really who will need new stents in the future, it is very individual. Some people get a stent and end up having problems immediately. Some people go the rest of their life with never a problem. Stent restenosis and stent thrombosis are the two major issues in the first year.

What are the risks of living with a stent in Your Heart?

Risks of living with a stent in your heart The above cases for both metal stent and drug stents clearly show that if proper medicine and food diets are not followed after the stent placement, it will result in the formation of blocks over stents. This condition is called acute stent thrombosis.