Everybody different. The outcome depends on the skill of the surgeon and how dedicated your wife is to making it work. Minor complications from surgery are normal... whatever you do make sure you...

Your father should take the advice of his doctors or get a second opinion and make his own decision regarding this. Yes, it is a difficult decision. Some people have pulled through this (My grand...

My Dr. and I just discusses this last week. Not all people who go through that are going through it due to being lazy. I have limited things i can do as of exercise as i was a passenger in a car ac...

From what you've said, here is what I think has happened & is in the process of happening... Your uncle has had a heart catherization. During the Cath, they inject an iodine-based contr...

My opinion is that it's a very harsh and expensive thing that has more trouble than it's worth. I wouldn't call it "lazy", as some people need it because they aren't a...

You are from which country? Have they done any angiogram test or stress thalliumtest? What is the ejection factor? If the ejection factor is too less, the doctors may not do the bypass. If the bloc...

I have seen DM patients have heart surgery then not heal. They lie in the hospital with open chest wounds for 3 weeks and eventually die from infections. Because your friend is younger the risks...

Continue to have your doctor write letters of medical necessity. Have you doctor go into detail on what the problems you will experience (continue to experience) if you don't have the surgery...

Having just had a gastric bypass myself in December I would say that your aunt was probably partly on a liquid diet. You said though that she was able to prepare foods so they foods had to be low i...

you probably will have to go through the same things as your cousin. The insurance company wants to make sure that you can be helped through other means as bypass surgery is serious and very expen...

The cost for a heart bypass in Singapore is $12,900 by what I researched and it is in the below links I provided. The National Heart Center of Singapore is a designated national center for card...

If you are under strict diet and taking regular medication, you need not worry. But, there are hundreds of cases where re-clogging has taken place and people have undergone secknd bypass. There are...

From what I understand...typically Gastric Bypass is considered an "elective" surgery, which the majority of insurances won't cover. If she truly NEEDS the surgery (medically necess...

yea, if you pay for it, there are a lot of doctors out there who don't care muchhh about your health or negative permenent effects they can cause.. but only on the new car they want to get.....

Is there any reason they won't give him a platlet transfusion? And giving prednisone makes me think that he probably has another disease occurring that is causing him to loose all his plat...