is this laser surgery fatal?

is this angina laser surgery fatal?


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[ed34]

Which laser surgery are you referring to? Where they laser plaque away from the artery? or where they burn tiny holes in the heart muscle?
All procedures carry some risk, but minimal. If the risks were great then the procedure wouldn't be offered because no cardiologist wants to kill you.

[kenkeith]

Laser surgery has very low risk, but the risk for the procedure would be any comorbidity health/heart issues. If the laser procedure is to clear and open a better blood flow opening of an occluded vessel having plaque, the procedure is minimally invasive  and the risk is no greater than balloon angioplasty. Some risk of damage to artery wall, but with a cooler energy source that risk is minimal. The laser angioplasty procedure generally takes one to two hours and recovery in the hospital is typically one or two days for most patients

If you have servere blockage, and not a good candidate for drug therapy, stent, or bypass therapy and have already had a bypass surgery and there is no relief from severe heart chest pain (angina pectoris) there is a procedure with laser application. The procedure is an attempt to establish blood flow to the deficit area of the heart by laser intervention that burns and provides a new pathway for blood from a good blood source to the deficit area.  There is some success for a period of time but often the new pathways close. Obviously this procedure is more risk as the patient may already have health issues and advanced coronary artery disease.

Thanks for sharing, and if you have any further questions or comments you are welcome to respond.  Take care,

Ken