http://www.youhavealawyer.com/blog/2007/02/27/drug-coated-stent-diabetes/ Malpractice, Personal Injury & Accident Lawyers Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:38:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.youhavealawyer.com/blog/2007/02/27/drug-coated-stent-diabetes/#comment-359 Helen Wolf Fri, 16 Mar 2007 06:26:31 +0000 http://www.youhavealawyer.com/blog/2007/02/27/drug-coated-stent-diabetes/#comment-359 I had a stent put in. I was diagnosed at the time as a diabetic. Blood sugar near 500. Then, about a week later, I had an attack....went back to same hospital emergency room. They said "yes, you're having another attack. The stent moved and the artery is closing. But, since it is a small tail-end artery in the back. We will just keep you here over the weekend and let that part of your heart die....since many people no longer have 5% of their heart muscle". I stayed over the weekend. On Sunday...my temperature went up. It subsided a short time later. "They said that was quite common in this situation". I had a stent put in. I was diagnosed at the time as a diabetic. Blood sugar near 500. Then, about a week later, I had an attack….went back to same hospital emergency room. They said “yes, you’re having another attack. The stent moved and the artery is closing. But, since it is a small tail-end artery in the back. We will just keep you here over the weekend and let that part of your heart die….since many people no longer have 5% of their heart muscle”. I stayed over the weekend. On Sunday…my temperature went up. It subsided a short time later. “They said that was quite common in this situation”.

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