Hello,
My mother, 79 years old had a triple heart bypass surgery 13 years ago. She has been on medication - Aspirin 81 mg, Metoprolol, Crestor and Metformin (since recently to control her elevated sugar levels) every day. She started to experience more frequent angina attacks, along with symptoms of vomiting / nausea, abdominal pain since May of this year. The angina attacks have become progressively more frequent and severe in the past 6-8 weeks. Her cardiologist has referred her for an angiogram with a possible angioplasty this coming Thursday. Could you, please, advise me of what she (and us ) can expect ? How safe is angioplasty for somebody of her age and somebody who already had a CABG ? Thank you very much for your answer in advance !