Submitted by Dr T on February 17, 2011 – 11:00am
Patients with 3 vessel disease (like you) do much better with a bypass operation than stenting and I am not at all sure they have restored the blood flow to your heart back to normal as a coronary bypass operation (CABG) would have. A typical response after a procedure is often “we fixed you, so this can no longer be angina.”
You need to have your heart re-evaluated with a stress test at the very least.
You can read about this here:
https://www.cardiachealth.org/heart-disease-diagnosis/exercise-stress-t
Here you can calculate whether your chest pain is more likely to be cardiac or something else:
https://www.cardiachealth.org/app/chest-pain.php
Here you can calculate whether your treatment would have benefited from a different procedure:
https://www.cardiachealth.org/app/
I have blogged about this before, because I think patients often are scared away from what is the gold standard in improving blood flow to your heart:
https://www.cardiachealth.org/ca-blog/more-about-coronary-artery-bypass
https://www.cardiachealth.org/ca-blog/point-counter-point/
Hope this helps,
Dr T
https://www.cardiachealth.org/