Angiograms cause a raft of Health Problems

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Doctors rave about the angiogram (sometimes called angiography) being the gold standard procedure for checking for abnormalities in the coronary arteries. They inject so-called special dyes into the arteries so problems can be seen easier on the x-rays. However, they fail to disclose just how dangerous the procedure can be.

The rates of injury and death from the procedure vary quite a bit, depending on who is compiling the data, because they love to exclude certain groups of people, or change the timeframe after the procedure where problems will be attributed to the angiogram.

Medscape claims the mortality rate for angiograms is 0.5%, while the morbidity rate is at 5%. But the medical journals are abnormally full of cases where things didn’t go very well, with many case reports of everything from sudden deaths to complications occurring 2 months after the procedure.

As in this case study published in the Lancet, the patient had kidney failure and purple toes a long time after the angiogram, but the doctors were smart enough, and honest enough, to lay the blame on the angiogram. So, what about other complications that occur 1-month, 1-week, or maybe even a few days after an angiogram, that are not attributed to the angiogram, in order to fudge the safety data.

This is why we don’t really know the true mortality and morbidity rates from angiograms, and as I explained before, is also why the reported rates can vary so much. But in regards to the morbidity, the wide range of problems that can occur has been firmly established. Let’s take a look at some of the more common, can I say, angiogram injuries?

Short term problems include anaphylactic reactions to the anesthesia, the dye, or even thrombocytopenia from the Heparin saline flush.

Infections and vascular injuries are of course expected with any puncture procedure such as this, and the femoral sheath removal can result in hematomas, or retroperitoneal hemorrhages, which can cause the patients to bleed to death. Then there are pseudoaneurysms, fistulas, thrombosis, embolisms, and even dissection of the arteries, which all occur as physical injuries.

The procedure itself is very taxing on the heart, with bradyarrhythmia or tachyarrhythmia, combinations of either slow and fast heart rates, combined with an irregular heartbeat, frequently occurring. Naturally, we also see large numbers of heart attacks and strokes post-angiograms, as well as long term congestive heart failure.

Other complications include hypotension, hypoglycemia, respiratory insufficiency, and edema.

Then there are a whole set of additional complications caused by the toxic dyes used as a contrast media. One well studied injury is Contrast Induced Nephropathy, otherwise known as CIN, which is basically a fancy way to say that the kidney function has been destroyed. While it is possible to recover from this, many are left with permanent kidney damage requiring dialysis.

Once again, the CID rates vary wildly, with the highest reports coming from 2 studies showing 16.5% and a 14.4% incidence rates following angiograms. The National Kidney Foundation’s website references a study by the Henry Ford Hospital, which found that 20% of women developed CID, and 14% of men, so indeed the risks are extremely high.

In terms of kidney damage, a study in the Journal Circulation showed those who developed acute renal failure and survived the hospital stay, 12.1% of them died within 1 year, and almost half were dead within 5 years. Another study in the American Journal of Medicine showed that for those who developed acute renal failure and also required dialysis, the in-hospital mortality rate was 35.7%, and the 2-year survival rate was just 18.8%.

CID was also mentioned in a study titled Side Effects of Radiographic Contrast Media, published in the Journal BioMed Research International, but they also mentioned a range of functional derangements of the thyroid gland. This is to be expected, since the dyes are iodine based, which is strongly linked to thyroid function. The study mentions that the dye injections can deliver an acute iodide load up to several hundred thousand times the RDI of Iodide.

Overall, the list of potential complications after an angiogram is as along as your arm, with both an immediate risk of death or injury, as well as a long-term risk of the same. It begs the question as to whether the tests are indeed worse the risk, and if it is just another money-making procedure used by the doctors and hospitals to make money, since the clinical value of the testing is quite questionable.

While it may be useful in certain immediate life threatening or serious conditions, for those not at risk of sudden death, but have an issue such as a suspected blocked artery, it makes more sense to take a natural and side-effect free remedy to clear the blockages. In that case, if there was a blockage, it would be cleared, and if there wasn’t a blockage, you would get some other boost to your health and wellbeing. Plus, it would almost certainly be a lot cheaper than the cost of the test.

For more information on the dangers of common medical tests, and safe alternatives to fix the problems they are testing for, please visit my website at healthglade.com