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Does Acute Coronary Syndrome Reoccur Within 2 Months?
I am a 36 years old from India who recently was detected to have acute coronary syndrome with troponin T up to 0.98 ng and underwent PTCA and drug eluting stent placement to the left circumflex artery which was found to have 100% stenosis in the angiogram(single vessel disease in the LCx). Now that after 35 days the PTCA, I am highly worried about getting a second heart attack, or myocardial infarction, or even sudden death. My doctor said there is nothing to worry since I have adequate LV function, but I want to know whether it will be possible for me to live without the fear of having a second heart attack at least for the next few years? Everywhere in the net, the American Heart Associationsâ?? website says that 24% of men will die within one year after the heart attack and the WWW.WWWW.WW website says that acute coronary syndrome carries a risk of recurring within 2 months.? Please help me
Mon, 6 May 2019
Hello,,
You should know that in your age if there were no serious blockage in other arteries and you follow your doctor's advice on lifestyle and medications, there are very good chances to have no other heart attacks and cardiac arrest for decades.
I have patients, who are even older you 10-15 years, whose hearts returned to normal after opening the blocked artery as it is in your case, they do healthy lifestyle, take the medications, come to regular visits, we follow their blood cholesterol levels and they are doing fine more than 10 years now. They live a normal life, do sports and work.
With your background you also have a very low risk of recurrent attacks, so stop worrying, just follow your doctor's advice and live your life normally.
Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.
Take care
Regards,
Dr Lilit Baghdasaryan, Cardiologist
You should know that in your age if there were no serious blockage in other arteries and you follow your doctor's advice on lifestyle and medications, there are very good chances to have no other heart attacks and cardiac arrest for decades.
I have patients, who are even older you 10-15 years, whose hearts returned to normal after opening the blocked artery as it is in your case, they do healthy lifestyle, take the medications, come to regular visits, we follow their blood cholesterol levels and they are doing fine more than 10 years now. They live a normal life, do sports and work.
With your background you also have a very low risk of recurrent attacks, so stop worrying, just follow your doctor's advice and live your life normally.
Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.
Take care
Regards,
Dr Lilit Baghdasaryan, Cardiologist
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