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How long do you live with heart disease? |
How long do you live with heart disease? it depends on the severity of heart desease and your age as well as your attitude to it depends on many factors,what type of disease,how long the person has had it,are there any other medical conditions present that can exasperate the cardiac function Sometimes you live healthier than addressing the doctors: My girlfriend's husband is 56 years old, he went to the doctor for a check up. He was told that he had heart disease, and that he had to only live 3 months if he doesn't do heart operation. He agreed and went for the operation, and guess what, he also had his leg amputated, as there had been some complication, resulting from the Heart operation. My girlfriend is in shock, and keeps saying that he should not have gone to that heart operation. People can live decades even with severe disease. I think the record is 29 years after his first cardiac bypass (and he's still going strong). You can do the math and that's in the late seventies when he had his procedure. Bypasses were not that common place in those days. Remarkable really. We formerly used to see people in the thro's of a heart attack coming into the ER with very severe symptoms and literally on death's door. Today we see much more mild presentation with fewer long term complications. People have heart attacks and are good as new in less than a month in some cases. To that respondant who had a friend of a friend who lost a leg after a surgery...that experience is extremely rare. I am very sorry to hear about her experience. It is important to remember though that nothing in this world comes without risk. That man could have driven across town and been in a horrible accident with the same result. Everything has some risk to it. I have personally had contact with hundreds of open heart patients and even more patients (by a lot) who have had angioplasty. Not a single one had serious complications as described above. Out of all of those, one man had a fatal heart attack several months after his procedure, but that too is rare. And remember we are talking about a population of people who have horrible heart disease. Listen to your doctors. Try to do as they ask. Take your medications. It will work out. God bless and good luck. Physician assistant - cardiology It depends on what the disease is. Some heart disease has a completely normal life expectancy. Some can be treated very effectively with medications or surgery. So, it all depends on what type of heart disease, how severe it is, and what treatment is available. Living with heart disease is relative to the degree and type of heart disease and time of onset.Some people only live a short time after being diagnosed and others survive for many years. Infants die of heart disease every day, while others live to adulthood and beyond.Adults who suffer an M.I. (heart attack) later in life sometimes die immediately ,while others survive to live another 20-30 years.Another primary factor is each individual responds differently to treatment so in essence there is no simple answer to to your question because heart disease is so individualized. |
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