What are the risks and side effects of stent placement

For some diseases, modern medicine can solve them through some technologies and save the patient's life in the shortest time. For example, for patients with coronary heart disease and heart disease, doctors will decide whether to install stents for the patients based on their condition. Many patients have a lot of worries and concerns before and after stent installation. Stent installation has less trauma, quick recovery and good effect, but stent surgery has indications, so many patients are worried that the risks and side effects of stent placement are too many.

Side Effect 1

Patients must pay attention to coronary stenting because it involves little trauma, quick recovery, and immediate effects, and has saved the lives of countless patients with coronary heart disease. But some people are overly superstitious about its therapeutic effects, thinking that as long as they have it installed, it is like having insurance and can solve the problem once and for all. In fact, stent surgery has indications and is not suitable for all patients with coronary heart disease.

Side Effect 2

Patients must understand that if they have coronary heart disease but their coronary artery stenosis does not meet the requirements for surgery, those with severe coronary artery disease are more suitable for cardiac surgery bypass surgery. Patients who cannot receive long-term antiplatelet therapy after surgery, such as those with bleeding constitutions or those with other serious complications including malignant tumors, are not expected to survive long.

Side Effect 3

Patients must understand that inserting an inappropriate stent will not only cause mental stress and drug side effects to the patient, but may even cause more serious myocardial infarction. Almost all the heart stents currently used are drug-eluting stents. Compared with bare stents, they are not only more expensive, but also require one to take clopidogrel for one year after placement and lifelong aspirin to fight blood clots. These two drugs not only irritate the gastrointestinal tract, but also have the risk of bleeding.

Side Effect 4

Inserting an inappropriate stent will not only cause mental stress and drug side effects to the patient, but may even cause more serious myocardial infarction. Almost all the heart stents currently used in my country are drug-eluting stents. Compared with bare stents, they are not only more expensive, but also require one year of clopidogrel after placement and lifelong aspirin to fight blood clots. These two drugs not only irritate the gastrointestinal tract, but also have the risk of bleeding.

Side Effect 5

Some patients will feel local discomfort in their heart after stent placement and will take a year to adapt. In clinical practice, we also see some patients who have one or more stents implanted because they do not meet the indications for stent treatment. After the operation, due to their physical problems or failure to take medication on time, blood clots occur, leading to more serious myocardial infarction, and they have to "go back for a second stent operation or undergo heart bypass surgery.