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Do i need another heart stent for a 50% blockage?
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Any symptoms?: If you're having no symptoms, it's doubtful that a stent would be helpful (and there's trouble and expense, as you know). There's no good evidence that coronary intervention in people without symptoms has any beneficial effects.
Answered 5/28/2018
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Not Usually: 50% blockage on 2 dimensional imaging like an angiogram is usually not hemodynamically significant.
Answered 3/21/2013
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