Treatment of Coronary heart disease:
After your doctor confirms the diagnosis, he will depend on three lines to manage your condition.
1- Healthy lifestyle habits:
your doctor will ask you to replace your unhealthy habits with healthy ones. Your doctor will ask you to stop smoking, have enough good sleep, eat healthy food, and do physical exercise.
2- Medications:
your doctor will write some medicines to treat the underlying causes of coronary heart disease, such as:
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- Nitrates: it helps you relieve chest pain and dilate your coronary arteries.
- Calcium channel blocker: to treat hypertension and dilate blood vessels
- Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors: to control hypertension
- Metformin: to control high blood sugar (if you have)
- Statins therapy: your doctor prescribes it to lower high cholesterol levels in your blood. Statin drugs are like atorvastatin, Fluvastatin, and pitvastin.
3-Procedures:
If the medical treatment fails to make you better, your doctor will need to do some procedures to improve your case. These procedures like:
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- Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI): your doctor will dilate your narrow coronaries then use a stent to keep it patent.
- Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG): your doctor takes a graft from chest arteries or leg veins to bypass the stenosed segment and improve blood flow.
