Are heart stents dangerous?

Many people's hearts have been sick for a long time, and coupled with overly frequent heart beats, they will have arrhythmia and heart disease problems. In addition, some people have narrowing and blockage of the coronary arteries and need to receive treatment with heart stents. Heart stents are a very common operation, and the stent itself is also dangerous, but heart stents have pros and cons. If the condition requires it, it would be better to have a heart stent.

Under what circumstances can a heart stent be placed?

A heart stent is only needed when the coronary arteries are narrowed or blocked, not when the capillaries are blocked.

The coronary arteries are blood vessels that supply blood to the heart. If they are narrowed or blocked, it will cause what we usually call coronary heart disease or even myocardial infarction, which is a relatively serious heart disease. If heart bypass surgery cannot solve the problem, coronary artery bypass surgery will be needed.

Stent placement in the heart is usually done by puncturing the groin area into the femoral artery, then inserting a catheter through the femoral artery to the root of the aorta and then into the coronary artery.

No matter what kind of surgery, there are risks. When deciding whether to have treatment, you should weigh the pros and cons to see whether the benefits of treatment outweigh the harms or the harms outweigh the benefits.

Heart stent surgery is a relatively mature operation and does involve certain risks, but the incidence of the risk is not high and it should be considered a relatively safe and common operation.

Generally, after a heart stent surgery, because of the implantation of foreign matter, blood flow through the foreign matter is prone to form blood clots, so it is necessary to take anticoagulant drugs such as warfarin, clopidogrel, aspirin and other drugs.