Can any of you fake doctors explain how bad Jim's condition is? I don't really have experience with hospitals or sick people.
His heart took a fairly significant hit. An MI with an LAD origin is one of, if not the most severe type of MI. But, they also treated it promptly, and those vessels looks quite good now. Since he made it through the procedure his only risk now is developing heart failure in the next 12 months. If he can avoid that, he should be fine. If he develops HF, he'll get maybe a year or two.
Don't worry he's just getting some of that BBC stent
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Mutt's law! Mutt's law! Mutt's law!
Those all look quite patent now. As long as he can avoid recanalization (where the vessel re-blocks despite the stent due to immune reaction against the stent itself and what it does to the blockage) He's lucky he survived. an LAD based MI has a rather high chance of immediate cardiac death, delayed cardiac death due to rupture, and long term risk (which he is still under) of subsequent heart failure. If he can get through the next 12 months without developing HF, he will be ok. Hopefully he'll take better care of himself as far as BP, statins, etc... although a certain amount of this is likely due to his autoimmune disease, which he has likely done his best to control. LAD type blockages tend to have something of a hereditary element to them, so I wouldn't be surprised if he has some kind of family history of male members of his family suddenly dropping dead or having MI's that were the root cause of death secondary to developing heart failure, etc...
For his age, this guy is really a mess. He has a primary autoimmune condition, with secondary features, indolent lymphoma (likely caused by the meds he is taking for the autoimmune condition if he is using a biologic, they all eventually cause cancer), and an LAD type MI. He's probably got 10 years at a minimum left, 15 years on average, and 20 years only by the grace of god.
