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And the news just keeps getting worse

Finished reviewing copies of my angiogram and treadmill reports, and not only do I have a 90% stenosis of the distal left main coronary artery I also have a 95% ostial stenosis of the circumflex artery systolic function The latter being the reason the cardiologist couldn't stent, since according to a friend, The ostium is the opening of the artery to the aorta. You can't stent through that [because] half the stent would be lying free in the aorta. Whether they could have stented the left main artery is pretty much irrelevant since a bypass would be required regardless. It's just now it will be double bypass surgery. Yet it doesn't end there. During my treadmill it appears I experienced an ischemia abnormal ST depression seen immediate recovery 0.9 slow sIow-upstoping V3, 4.5mm horizontal in V4-V5, and 1.9mm V6->; ST depression seen during exaggerated HTN reading of 246/106 Not sure that makes a lot of sense to me, but in simpler terms, this was evidence the heart was...