Dr. Samin Sharma on Recovery Following Stent Placement and Heart Surgery

Mount Sinai's Dr. Samin Sharma dicsusses recovery times and acrivity restrictrions following stent placement and open heart surgery. Dr. Samin K. Sharma performs over 1500 complex coronary interventions annually (the highest in the country) while achieving an extremely low complication rate. According to New York State Department of Health reports, he has the highest angioplasty success rate (lowest mortality less than 0.1 percent) for an interventional cardiologist in the state since 1994. Under Dr. Sharma's leadership, Mount Sinai Heart has become one of the best and busiest centers in New York, providing excellent care for all types of simple and complex high-risk heart patients. In addition to coronary interventions, Dr. Sharma specializes in the non-surgical treatment of mitral and aortic stenosis (balloon valvuloplasty).

[byronjackson]

Dr. Sharma put a stent in for me and I thank him for that and I told him that I was going to go home the next day and he said that I was not going to be able to but still the next day I had to walk around the ward 5 times and he said that was amazing and he let me go home after that . He's and amazing doctor

[heenagandhi]

Is it normal. Plz suggest me something

[uircqkx]

My mom had stunts in heart but now they r suffering from teeth problem, , pls suggest me that removal of teeth affects to heart ?

[daljitkaur]

Please tell me precautions after stenting

[abeebiakhan]

how much of stunt time is taken to work

[heenagandhi]

Yesterday my mom has undergone angioplasty, but her right hand is swollen and it's become hard. And Blue patches are seen on her hand and palm

[rinku-sjfh]

How many years facc fellowship process after md

[joto]

I was jogging 4-miles steadily three times a week with no issues. I am in good shape, 50, no smoking, good diet BUT a long history of high cholesterol. I have been on Lipitor 20 mg. However, I have been very undisciplined with the lipitor intake and now I am paying the consequences of my negligence.
Due to bad air in the Bay area I stopped exercising for two weeks. When I resumed jogging in the last weeks I felt some pressure (no pain)in the heart area and left side of the arm. I thought I was in bad shape, I would stop and go. I felt some rumbling in my heart while having coffee and called Kaiser Permanente to set a Dr's appointment. They asked me to showed up at the ER, which I did. My EKG was normal but the heart stress test was not. I was admitted to the hospital and scheduled to the Cath Lab the next morning. My LAD was 95% blocked. The left anterior descending artery (also LAD, anterior interventricular branch of left coronary artery, or anterior descending branch) is a branch of the left coronary artery. Occlusion of this artery is often called the widow-maker infarction due to a high death risk.
A Medtronics stent was placed and I was out the next day. I am so so lucky that I did not have a heart attack.
My advised to anyone with high cholesterol is to get an EKG and the stress test.
Kaiser was phenomenal and they have a state of the art Cath lab in San Francisco.

[Ezq]

I had a stent procedure done in my right leg 8 days ago. I have been in pain all this time, and my calf feels swelling. My feet feel burning like road rash. Should I be worried? I'm on blood thinner.

[sauravmisraz]

Hello dr sharma, one of my arteries in brain was clogged due to higher cholesterol level resulting to an ischemic stroke 3 yrs back. Physical therapy, stimulations along with medication is going on since then but there is no improvements as such. Rather I encounered number of post stroke convulsions.
Just wanted to know wheather stenting at the blocked artery will help me in recovering? Coz as per my understanding that was to root of the problem i.e insufficient supply of oxygen via blood to brain which is still there. Though I take blood thinner along with medicines to keep the cholesterol level in control. Still facing huge reeling of head & other side effects of anticonvulsion drug. By d way I am currently left side hemiplegic condition since the stroke

[a.v.jayalakshmi]

Does blood loss take place during Stent placement or angiography?

[confusedatmagamming]

5 month ago my father had angioplasty surgery but till now he is not full cure. He feels suffocation while doings small works while sleeping while go up on stairs . Pls suggest me further.

[nazmansoor]

Hello dr. Good evening,

My father had a stunt 2 weeks ago but now he is having trouble breathing, please suggest something.

[kcbluebutterfly]

I was told I'm going to stay overnight. Maybe because I have had issues with blood clots and I'm on blood thinners too?

[jyotisirkiclass]

Can i ride a motor bike after 10 days of angioplasty?

[mohammedaslam]

i have one stent last one month can i drive pikup car still little pain i have what to do for precaution

[a.v.jayalakshmi]

Immediately after his heartattack treatment the next day pneumonia was detected and he had sever pneumonia too.... So is this low BP because of that?

[eviem]

I had a heart attack at work (go figure) last Friday. Went in to cath lab, got two stents put in because of an 85% blockage. I coded and took 1 min and 46 secs to revive me. Came home on Sunday evening, went back in Monday morning with numbness and tingling in my left arm. Was told it was a pinched nerve had nothing to do with my heart. It is now Wednesday, numbness comes and goes and also feeling some flutters and prickly pricks on my chest. Cardiologist says I’m ok not to panic. Really? I don’t get to see him for 3 weeks so wtf!!!

[siddharthmathur]

Hello Doctor...

My mother 3 days back went thru this process where 2 stents were placed..
She was in observation for a day and got discharged next day.

At home for a day she was fine.. But then all of a sudden she had severe chest pain... We immediately rushed to same hospital.... Same doctor examined her and treated immediately.

Doctor said there was choke/blockage found near the stent..

My question is -- Why there will be any blockage when stents already in place..
Does doctor did any mistake at first place? Because it is not usual to get pain when stents in place already.

She is still in ICU under observation.

[jackcastle]

Early January of 2022 my father died of heart failure. Two years prior he had a heart attack and surgery with stents. But it didn't make a difference. Should I look into this? Maybe the doctors are to blame maybe its not uncommon. But I getting suspicious that they didn't properly test or even diagnose him.