I have 4 brain surgeries since 1990, I have been from Baltimore Johns Hopkins-Univ. of Texas in Galveston TX, and Univ. of FLORIDA. I need to do a Cerbrial Angio, I have always have "bridged" from coumadin-heprin drip. I have bleed out once already. I have a Dr. in Florida and he said he can do it with me on the coumadin. I am so scared I will bleed out again. What kind of technics that would cause that Dr. to have me be put under the prosedure with NOT me stopping my coumadin? Oh, I have two catherters stuck in my brain during one of the prosedures in John Hopkins in 1990. I am in their Medical Journals ...
look me up: J Neurosurg 76:1004-1007, 1992
Intra-arterial urokinase for treatment of retrograde thrombosis following resection of an arteriovenous malformatio
That was the first brain surgeries, then I wound up having aneurysms etc....
I am scared- my head hurts ... into the L-temple area were I had three aneurysms 1996-UF-Gainsville,Florida,
another AVM (like in the write up J Hopkins) that was in UTMB Medical Branch-Galveston, Tx 1999, and the last was in Galveston, Tx... brain surgery..... was the last Cerebral Ango. was in the year 2008, and everyone has done those CT-Angio ... and as the years have past ... one year I had FOUR, then the following year I had three, then etc... were they don't see any.
Do aneurysms just ....POOF... disappear. I don't think so ... do you think so?
What kind on new prosedures have they made in the New that would make me think that I would be safe with this Dr. with my PT/INR 3.1 ... I just fluxuat.... should be 1.5-2.0
Or should I be coumadin-heprin-stop-heprin-coumadin .... to be on a SAFE SIDE.
What do you think? If it was you or your wife or your daughter/son.