[QUOTE=Lutheran122;3168179]What drugs open up a 72 percent blocked artery? How are you treating that blockage , with lifestyle changes and medicine I presume..the question is how do you track how well that is working? Another angiogram? I worry about how I will be able to tell if my diet and exercise program is working...I have a few 30 percent narrowed arterys..how in the future can I tell how those arterys look without another angiogram ( which I don't want to do ever again...the last one a few weeks ago really hurt )?

Isosorbide medication targets the coronary arteries and widens, opens, dilates, relaxes those vessels...Lisinopril (ACE inhibitor) dilates system vessels providing relief to the heart's workload. It lowers blood pressure and slows or prevents the damage done by higher blood pressure to the vessels.

My cholesterol is normal at 144 mg/dl, but the doctor wants to lower the cholesterol to below 100. Recently, I was put on Lipitor and given the impression that will reduce and/or clean vessels. I have a lab and doctor appointment in Oct. and will know more at that time.

Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging (NMRI) can provide with a generated cross-sectional image of any plane or planes with minimal loss of image quality recorded in a 2D or 3D matrix and can provide info on the degree of vessel blockage, abnormal growth, etc...Angioplasy provides information on internal gradient pressures, used to take a biopsy, determine EF, and implant a stent, etc.