How frightening for you both. I'm so sorry. My husband went in to have a stent put in his heart but they could not get it in. They planned to do a rotablation the following morning to open the vessel more to put in a stent. But that night in the hospital he began having lots of blood in his urine. The RN called his urologist at 3 in the morning who was at the hospital not long after that to perform a procedure to cauterize the vessels in the prostate. Hubby had had a TURP procedure on his prostate two years earlier. A TURP removes tissue and would be vulnerable to blood thinners and could open up bleeders. The head cardiologist at the practice then determined that because of the prostate bleeding and the difficulty they had putting a stent in, that his colleague should do nothing more. A good TUG friend (jme) knew a surgical nurse who worked with the top cardiac surgeon at the Medical University of SC (which is next door to the hospital where they attempted to put in the stent) and contacted her. She spoke to the surgeon (who did the first heart transplant is SC) who actually called my husband! He had looked at the images and report and said that he did not believe that he needed surgery at that time, and referred him to his colleague, a cardiologist at MUSC who took a look, got on a Zoom conference (this was during COVID) with us and told us that he never would have even attempted to put a stent in that area. That had he done so, he very well may have been trying to crack my husband's chest open to try save him during the procedure, much less what might have happened during a rotablation to open the vessel up for a stent! It's been five years; my husband has had no further procedures and is on new medications. He can sense when he had done too much and just sit and let it pass. It doesn't seem as if your husband's doctors were aware or concerned about a recent prostate procedure! If your husband had the TURP procedure that could have been the cause of the bleeding and a warning for future planned stent procedures. Please bring it up and get another opinion!
