After a blocked artery is treated with angioplasty to restore blood flow, the artery may become blocked again. This is called restenosis. One way to prevent restenosis is to place a stent inside the artery at the spot where the blockage was cleared by angioplasty. A stent is a tiny, metal mesh tube that is placed with a catheter and permanently embedded within the artery wall to prop open and prevent it from collapsing.
Associations between Agent Orange and other dioxin-contaminated herbicides and structural birth defects like spina bifida, oral clefts, heart defects and hypospadias may be just the âtip of the icebergâ.
He is not on any medication for it although he was operated on it by angioplasty. There are two issues here...firstly carotid artery disease occurs in people without exposure to agent orange...usually due to increase cholesterol diets, although this is usually in people older than 59. So there would be plenty of evidence to suggest that this was not due to agent orange. DrPauline : However my understanding is that the VA have started to allow ischaemic heart disease as a possible reason to claim due to agent orange exposure.