21st Century Necromancer

Chapter 116 Heart Attack Emergency (Please Recommend, Please Favorite)

Since they had moved in together, Yu Chen and Hiromi Jounouchi naturally got up together in the morning, made breakfast together, and after breakfast, went to work together.

The first time taking the subway to work with his girlfriend made Yu Chen feel somewhat unaccustomed, but seeing his girlfriend's smiling face so close, he couldn't help but feel a sense of subtle happiness.

"Why are you staring at me like that? Make sure to watch where you're going when you walk!" Feeling Yu Chen's gaze on her, Hiromi Jounouchi flashed him a smile and reminded him.

"It's just that going to work with you for the first time feels a bit unusual. I used to go alone, and now suddenly having someone by my side is quite peculiar," Yu Chen smiled back at Hiromi Jounouchi before turning his gaze forward.

Seeing Yu Chen in this state, Hiromi Jounouchi couldn't help but smile: "Well, you'll have to get used to it from today onwards, because from now on... I'll be accompanying you to work."

Hiromi Jounouchi's words made Yu Chen chuckle, though he shook his head, laughingly admitting that he couldn't keep his feelings secret while also adjusting his mood, as he and Hiromi Jounouchi walked into the hospital together.

Even in the morning, the hospital was crowded with people. Many of the doctors and nurses who saw Yu Chen and Hiromi Jounouchi arriving for work together were surprised. Although they knew about the couple's relationship, their public arrival together still attracted many gazes, which made Hiromi Jounouchi slightly embarrassed. Nevertheless, she courteously greeted the people she knew.

While the two of them were greeting acquaintances on their way to the office, suddenly, a man in the waiting area clutched his chest and collapsed to the ground. The woman who appeared to be with him immediately started shouting in panic: "Husband, what's wrong with you? Husband! Someone help! Quickly, someone! Save him!

Save him!"

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Witnessing this scene, Yu Chen and Hiromi Jounouchi exchanged a glance and, putting aside their affection, rushed over together.

This was also why the man had initially complained of chest pain and then felt no pain afterward. The initial chest pain was due to the issue in the LAD, leading to ischemia and hypoxia of the myocardium.

His subsequent lack of pain was because, after the complete occlusion of the LAD, the right coronary artery had formed collateral circulation, supplying blood to the occluded LAD and temporarily alleviating his myocardial ischemia.

However, this was by no means a good thing, because even with collateral circulation, no one knew how long it would last. If the collateral circulation failed to sustain, under the occluded LAD conditions, the man's heart could suffer massive myocardial necrosis at any moment or even trigger sudden death!

What Yu Chen was doing at that moment was reopening the occluded LAD for the man, restoring blood supply to his heart.

To reopen an occluded vessel involves inserting a very thin catheter into the site of occlusion and then using an inflatable rubber balloon to expand the occluded area.

Depending on the severity of the condition, consideration also has to be given to whether to place a vascular stent. Generally, if the situation is not severe and only vessel narrowing has occurred, implantation of a vascular stent may be unnecessary.

A vascular stent is a commonly used medical device in cardiac interventional surgery that functions to clear arterial vessels, also known as a coronary artery stent. After using a balloon to expand the occluded or narrowed section of a vessel, the stent can be inserted through the catheter into the expanded area, to hold the vessel open and prevent re-occlusion.

However, the installation of a vascular stent does not guarantee that all is well and without impact.

If, after a stent has been implanted, the patient fails to adhere to medication regimen, does not change unhealthy lifestyle habits, and neglects proper control of blood pressure, blood lipids, and blood sugar, the originally healthy vessels may develop new lesions. At the site of the implanted stent, restenosis is highly likely to occur.

Nevertheless, the man's vessel was already completely occluded. After dilating the original occluded vessel, without stent support, it would be very prone to re-narrowing.

Therefore, after seeing the blood flow restored in the originally occluded vessel on the screen, Yu Chen turned to the nurse beside him and instructed, "Vascular stent."