Sorry about your loss.
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Sorry for your loss. To my mother, doctors were gods and the Mayo clinic was Mecca, but she did start losing faith in later years.
Unfortunately, in your Mom's case, the cardiac intervention with administration of blood thinner was the cause of death.
Whether good judgement was used in choosing to intervene is the question. Was the proper diagnosis of root cause determined? Was the risk of intervention properly assessed? Was it reasonable to assume that administering blood thinner with that type of BP was very risky?
Unfortunately when you enter a hospital presenting with that type of problem, it's highly likely that you will undergo angioplasty with stent placement. It's a belief system subliminally influenced by huge revenue generation for doctor's groups and hospitals.
Under those circumstances, careful diagnosis, and rational conservative treatment plans pretty much go out the window.
Best Wishes
Kathy,
I'm sorry for your loss.
From your description, your mother experienced an Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS -fancy talk for a blocked heart artery). If an ACS is untreated, it often leads to a heart attack. It sounds like the heart attack was at least partially averted due to the placement of the stent.
During treatment for the ACS, your mother was treated with blood thinners, a very appropriate treatment for most persons experiencing an ACS. A small percentage of persons who are treated with blood thinners will develop a bleed in the brain, which is often devastating, as was the case for your mother. Persons with advanced hypertension are at particular risk for stroke when treated with blood thinners.
If someone asks how your mother passed away, you can tell them that while she was being treated for a heart attack, she experienced a hemorrhagic stroke.
I hope that helps, and again, I'm very sorry to read of your loss.