Prognosis after heart surgery?!?

My mother is 46, and in April, she was having sever chest pain and her face was always so red. She went to the hospital, they did cardiac cath the next day and told her she needed bypass surgery. Five days later they did the surgery, quadruple bypass, and all was well until last September. She had a mild heart attack. They did an angiogram, put stents in, and she had a TIA(went blind for 11 hours and cant really remember much). The doctor told her she had diseased arteries and that the one(s)(not sure if they did more than one) they fixed was narrowed.

So far. all is well. Shes doing cardiac rehab, and feels a bit fine.

Does anyone know the prognosis after byoass and then angioplasty?

Bypass surgery is major surgery appropriate for patients with blockages in two or three major coronary arteries or severely narrowed left main coronary arteries, as well as those who have not responded to other treatments. It is performed in a hospital under general anesthesia using a heart-lung machine to support the patient while the healthy vein is attached to the coronary artery. About 70% of patients who have bypass surgery experience full relief from angina; about 20% experience partial relief. Long term, symptoms recur in only about three or four percent of patients per year. Five years after bypass surgery, survival expectancy is 90%, at 10 years it is about 80%, at 15 years it is about 55%, and at 20 years it is about 40%.

I had a 4 vessel CABG surgery in 1990 and again a triple vessel surgery in 2002. Now I am alright. Similary your mother also should do better and I do not know why so soon she needed Stents to be placed. Such fast adverse development is really very difficult. I am unable to tell more than this.

I suggest you to act as per the cardiologist say. also have a second opinion from another cardiologist and get confirmed if the treatments given are in order. Best of luck to your Mom-

I had a 7 way bypass Dec. 05, an a stent Dec. 06 Each person recovers an can achieve different levels of activity after bypass an stents. Theres several bypass groups on Yahoo. look there an join they give excelent support for the patient an family. I'm 61 yrs old