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Old 04-02-2013, 04:28 PM
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Originally Posted by pinetopfirefighter View Post
Went to my surgeon to ask about 2 pages of questions today. She said the surgery may do nothing to assist the flow in the collateral veins.........BUT... She said after discussing me with her assistant, if there is no or little improvement after surgery, they want to do a stent . I am so happy that they are going to do this. Maybe there is hope after all!!.
Like onelessrib stated, a stent should never be used in VTOS and the fact that they are suggesting this isn't a real encouraging sign that they are familiar with TOS at all. :-(
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