A challenge of the heart: Coronary Heart Disease - Two Angioplasties & Five Stents - 20 Years later - A Personal Journey.

By Naresh Gathani

"A challenge of the heart" is a true story of the author's journey after being diagnosed with advanced coronary artery disease at age forty three . The book describes the circumstances of the diagnosis and describes the treatment provided by consultant cardiologist . Additional details by way of graphics explains in simple terms the various feat

• Language: English
• Publisher: AMZ Marketing Hub
• Release date: Jan 5, 2024
• ISBN: 9781916798830

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A Challenge of the Heart

A short story to share insights gained over twenty years after treatment for serious coronary heart disease. A useful read for everyone to prevent, manage, resolve and thrive!

by

Naresh Gathani

Copyright ©2023 Naresh Gathani

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 - Background

Chapter 2 - Pharmaceutical Benefits

Chapter 3 - Life After the two Angioplasties and five Stents

Chapter 4 - The logic and good fortune

Chapter 5 - Collateral Damage and Minor Complications

Chapter 6 - The Larger Perspective on Coronary Heart Disease

Chapter 7 - Summary

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About the Author

Acknowledgements

I am grateful to NHS England for the comprehensive care they have provided after the Angioplasties. Without this care, I am not sure if I would have been able to write this book.

I am grateful to www.sozocardiology for graphics 1 & 2 on Page 9

I am grateful to Wikipedia for the graphics on Page 10.

I am grateful to Rosemary, Eamon and Julie Gentry for their amazing contribution to global badminton and their website at www.acrabadminton.org.uk  for the awesome photo on Page 65.

I am also grateful to https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov for the research paper: Coenzyme Q10 Supplementation in Aging and Disease Juan D. Hernández-Camacho,¹ Michel Bernier,² Guillermo LópezLluch,¹ and Plácido Navas¹,

I am grateful to Wassen International Ltd. for 10 mg Coenzyme Q10 and the product details in Chapter 2.

I am grateful to Vitabiotics Ltd. for 50 mg Coenzyme Q10 and the product details in Chapter 2 and for the Hairfollic Him and the product details in Chapter 4.

I am grateful to the British Heart Foundation for all the statistics and the graphics they’ve provided.

I am grateful to the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention for all the statistics and graphics they’ve provided as well – USA.

I am grateful to Kirti for all the support and inspiration to make the books happen.

Chapter 1 - Background

The Backdrop

At 43 years of age, I was diagnosed with unstable angina due to 70 % Stenosis (obstructions) of my coronary arteries. I was treated with an angioplasty and 3 stents. Within two years, I was in difficulties again with the unstable angina and was treated with a further angioplasty with two stents. This story is about my challenges and blessings, and I share insights with the hope that this story can help you in some way to prevent, manage, resolve and thrive in the context of coronary heart disease. I am 66 years old now, and was born in 1957.  I have been living in the United Kingdom since 1974. I graduated as a dental surgeon in 1980 and worked in the National Health Service. I retired a few years back in 2015.

It was February 2000, and my eldest daughter, Sonal, and I had just moved into our new home, which we both were very proud of. It had been an enormous struggle of six months to arrange the finances for the purchase. This was mainly because this was a second purchase, as I had left the first home to my estranged wife, Ela and my younger daughter, Kala. I don’t think the banks were keen to take on a client who was going to face a potential divorce. Anyway, the reason I mention all this is that during these difficult six months, I had appeared quite unwell, at least to my elder sister, Illa. I did not feel unwell but did feel exhausted. It was a combination of being a single parent (although Sonal was already seventeen years old by then) and working long hours, with a pretty messed up personal life and stressful working life as an owner of busy dental practices. I had previous separations from my wife and daughters, and I had come to terms by making extra efforts to see my daughters more often and keep in touch to stay informed about their lives. Now, to see the two sisters living apart from each other was just not possible to come to terms with. This traumatised me immensely. Being the sole source of income in a growing family, I had never