It seems several docs have been saying if your symptoms got better and then you lost the improvements, you probably restenosed. But here's an issue I've been wondering about. If you don't have improvement after angioplasty, it could still be that the restored flow has stopped or significantly slowed progression of the disease. We don't know if that's happening, but it is possible, and it's something we're all hoping for obviously. But in that case if you restenose you'd have no way of knowing. An ultrasound would help if your problem is only in your jugulars, but I haven't heard of many docs recommending follow-up ultrasounds.gsiskin wrote:A repeat angioplasty may help but you should make sure that you really had a significant clinical benefit to the angioplasty before going into another procedure because there is always risk to repeat procedures. In other words, if your symptoms got a lot better after the first angioplasty then I can understand retreatment.
Is there something to this, or are the docs of the opinion that if you don't have improvement then the treatment "didn't work" and you can forget about it?