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Is open heart surgery generally safe and are there any safer alternatives available? Also can you recommend a good heart specialist in Pune for further consultation

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I'm really worried about my father. He had a couple of small attacks, and then a major one, and we had to move him from Dhanbad to a Kolkata hospital. They did an angioplasty on the 28th, he had a 90% blockage in his main vessel and they put in a stent. He was discharged on the 1st, but the next day he was back in the hospital because water filled up near his lungs and heart, and he couldnt breathe. He was in CCU for about seven days and finally got out on the 13th of December. Recently, his BNP levels were 956, potassium 2.4, and serum creatinine 1.84, so the doctor switched his medication around. Now he's on concor 1.25 mg, prax 10 mg, eptus 50 mg, ivabrad 5 mg, ecosprin 75 mg, aztor 10 mg, potklor, and febutaz 40 mg since his uric acid was high. But since yesterday, he's having trouble breathing and can't sleep at night. What should we do?

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I've had borderline high cholesterol for about a year now. My doctor is suggesting I start on medication, but I'm thinking maybe I could hold off for another month or two and try to make some more lifestyle changes. Is it okay to wait a bit longer before starting meds? And if I do start taking statins, is it possible to stop them later if my cholesterol levels improve?

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I'm a 44-year-old male and I just went through a health check-up with a pretty comprehensive package. Most of my results like the CBC, kidney function, lung X-ray, ESR, creatinine, blood urea, liver function, plasma glucose, HbA1c, hormone levels, thyroid assay, and urine routine came back normal. But I'm a bit concerned because my lipid profile and ECG came back with some differences, and two values in the lipid profile were highlighted in bold. I'm attaching those reports here. Could you let me know if there's anything I should be worried about or if everything's alright? What steps should I take next? Your help would be really appreciated.

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