Stents and bypass surgery relieve chest pain but don't stop heart attacks or strokes because they don't treat the underlying disease. Even the procedures themselves carry stroke risk. Real prevention requires addressing what's actually causing the damage.
Stents, they improve blood flow, they improve symptoms. They do not treat the disease.
Blockages don't kill most people, right? And they can only put a stent or balloon to treat the symptom. If you have a 70% blockage, you're better.
Exactly. Stents, and the same thing for surgery, improve blood flow in the setting of a tight constriction. Yeah, right. They improve blood flow, they improve symptoms. Right now I can mow the lawn without having chest pain, angina, breathing, whatever. They do not treat the So they don't prevent heart attacks and strokes? No.
So stents and balloons do not prevent— They're good for symptom relief if you have severe constrictions, but they do not prevent heart attacks.
They don't prevent cardiovascular death. And we've done multiple, multiple studies. Or strokes. Well, actually, your heart catheterization causes strokes.
