How did all those calcium entered my father ’ s coronary artery doctor ?

“It was severe double vessel disease &  turned out to be a complex angioplasty in LAD ”  Why doctor? what happened? It was a hard lesion, there was plenty of calcium deposits. It was not clearly visible in the angiogram. I had to do IVUS. Curiously, the calcium was clustered in all the three planes of the vessel ( intima the media and adventitia) and they projected into the lumen blocking the path. Image collage representation purpose Thank you, doctor,  how did you manage to remove it,? It was a real struggle. I had to break the calcium shell before deploying the stent. (What we refer to as lesion preparation). I thought Initially I can displace it with high-pressure balloon inflation,I went up to 40 ATM pressure,  finally needed a  rotational ablation with a burr.  ( IVL -Intravascular ultrasound was an option, but may not have helped either because of heavy Intimal load, Angiosculpts, and the cutting balloons (wolverines) we don’t have)   Was it a risky procedure? Yes, of course, see the sharp burr rotating 150 thousand resolution per second hugging the coronary artery without damaging it By the way, why did he accumulate so much calcium inside doctor? Can it be due to his daily calcium supplement doctor? Oh – my ? that is important new Info. I think that wasn’t noted in the case file. Tell me more, How long did he take it?  I think he is taking it for long years. He is rather obsessed with it, consumes ...
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