Rev. Soma Thero has been suffering from diabetes mellitus type 2 for the last
10 years. When he came here about 2 months ago, before landing in Moscow he
felt chest pains. With those pains he managed to fly further to St. Petersburg
spending another 3 hours and then only the ambulance was called and he was
rushed to the hospital. In the cardiology clinic in St. Petersburg doctors
could place a stentor in one of the coronary arteries and to recover blood
flow where it was totally absent. Then his diabetic therapy was converted into
insulin. Now the glucose levels are fluctuating between 3.9 - 6.0 m.mole/1
litre. After treating him in the hospital, for rehabilitation therapy Thero
was sent to a sanatorium where pineso therapy moler observation of a
cardiologist and other specialists was done. For this period Soma Thero has
improved a lot. He can walk a distance of about 500 meters without feeling any
pains in the chest. Today he looks very cheerful.
But as any diabetic patients he has got diabetic angiopathy. One of the
coronary arteries has stenosis with 3 atheroseborotic plaques in its lumen,
according to the angiographic data. So the doctors have a dilemma whether to
place 3 stentors in those 3 foci or to perform a bypass surgery. A consilium
is planned on 8th of Dec. (Monday) to make the right decision.
According to Soma Thero he is not sure in this condition whether he can fly or
not because last time he got chest pains in the air . I agree with him on
this point, as the diabetic patients may feel chest pains whenever they get
into conditions with low oxygen levels. As he is in the hands of well
qualified cardiosurgeons now, there is no point to be worried about.
Dr. Karunanayake
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