Heart bypass and stent are commonly used methods to treat heart disease, but many people don't know much about them, so many people have long thought that heart bypass and stent are the same thing. Fundamentally speaking, heart bypass surgery and stent surgery are very different and need to be distinguished. The occurrence of coronary heart disease seriously threatens the life safety of patients with coronary heart disease. Clinically, heart bypass and stent implantation are important means to treat coronary heart disease. Because both of them belong to revascularization treatment, many people confuse heart bypass with stent. In fact, heart bypass and stent are not the same thing.

There are four main differences between heart bypass surgery and stent surgery: different indications: although both are commonly used treatment methods for coronary heart disease, there are still differences in specific indications. For patients with single vessel occlusion and stenosis, cardiac stent surgery is more suitable; For patients with multi-vessel occlusion and stenosis, heart bypass surgery is more suitable; The principle of operation is different: heart stent surgery restores blood flow to the originally blocked blood vessels through the built-in stent. Its scope of action is very small, and it is difficult to ensure that blood vessels in other parts are no longer blocked. Heart bypass surgery bypasses the blocked site by rebuilding blood channels. Most patients are not easy to block again after operation; Different surgical scales: cardiac stent is a common method of interventional therapy. Most cardiac stents only need local anesthesia, which is a minimally invasive operation. Heart bypass surgery is a major operation, which requires not only general anesthesia but also thoracotomy. The degree of surgical trauma is different: the incision of cardiac stent operation is small, the trauma during operation is small, the patient recovers quickly, and there is no obvious pain during operation. Heart bypass surgery requires thoracotomy. It is unbearable for patients with large intraoperative trauma and long postoperative recovery time.

Although more and more people control the symptoms of coronary heart disease through heart bypass surgery and stent surgery, the surgery is not perfect, and patients still need to follow relevant preventive measures after surgery. In addition to monitoring and recording blood sugar, blood pressure, blood lipid and other indicators every day, we should pay more attention to diet and other aspects.