Heart Attack

Hari Om friends,

I have not been able to send the mails for the last few weeks as I have been extremely worried and busy for my younger brother Amarnath.
He stays in Shyamnagar, about a km from my home with his wife and two children, a boy and a girl, both school going.
On the 12th April, while having tea in his office he suddenly started perspiring profusely. He was taken home and then in the evening he visited a doctor who did an ECG and immediately told him to see a cardiologist and be hospitalized. Instead of taking the doctor’s advise he went home and did not inform anybody. The doctor also prescribed some medicines but told him not to take the medicine without consulting the cardiologist.
The next day also he did not inform us. It was only at around 1.00 pm when we telephoned him casually that his wife told us of the occurrence which occurred the previous day. We rushed to his place and realized the gravity of the situation.
I called up my cardiologist who could see him only by 8.00 PM at his home. On taking another ECG, he found that his condition had worsened and immediately advised us to take him to AMRi, Salt Lake.
An angiograph was done the next day and it was found that there was total blockage in LCX. They proposed to do ESC of the heart but kept postponing. However, after two days, seeing no improvement in his condition, we decided to shift him to RTIICS on the 16th, where I myself had got my Angioplasty done under Dr. Sunil Lhila.
His condition worried us for two days but thereafter it has improved and is now stable except for his CRP. This was initially 225, then 125.It was 77on the 24th and today it was 43. Dr. Lhila expects that by Thursday it should come down to around 30 when he can do the Angioplasty. However there is one problem.
Dr Lhila says that the LCx is a dominating artery for my brother but the area beyond the blockage in not visible. During the angio, he would not be able to see the artery and he would have to work blindly. In such a case, the risk of perforation will be there. He has said that there will be a 1% chance that there may be perforation and the patient may die. He has asked us to decide whether we should allow him to take the risk. Alternately, he could be released without the angio and live the rest of his life on medicines. However, his life would not be normal as he would always be short of breath.
My mail to all of you who read my mails as there are many doctors amongst us also is to advise me if there are any procedures by which the clot in the artery can be removed/ dissolved whether by Allopathy, Homoepathy or any of the other pathys. I had read some years back that Escorts had started a process by which a saline spray was also used to clear clots. How true, I do not know.