Sorry to be late comming in on this. Hope all is well Benjie.
My father has had angioplasty, a double bypass, and then a couple years ago a triple bypass. They all went well and he seems to be on a pretty reliable 9 year schedule for heart maintenance procedures.
This last time the two bi-passes they put in previosly were the ones plugged and had to be bi-passed again. He also needed a valve repair and a cryogenic procedure of some sort as well. It all went very well though. (I was in the no active passes pass at the time if anyone remembers.) There were a couple differences this last time from the double bi-pass he had two years before that. He was nine years older, but medicine was nine years more advanced as well. They way this played out was that technically it all went well, but he was much, much weaker after it and took much longer to recover. He did though with time.
One of the things I'm ABSOLUTLY convinced of is that going to a heart institute where they do lots of procedures really made a huge difference in my fathers treatment. We live out directly in the middle of the sticks. Kansas City and Denver are both almost 350 miles away so we are directly between them. Despite this I feel it was well worth it to take him to KC for his bi-pass. We went to a more local regional facility when we were first hoping it would just be an angioplasty. That place was a scary joke. They had no idea he was comming, what he needed or anything. When we learned he would need the bi-pass we instantly chose to leave and go to the mid-america heart institute at St. Lukes in KC. They do lots of procedures there and REALLY know there stuff. I had so much confidence in everyone there right down to every nurse and NA. (Our local hospital has trouble even knowing my mothers proper pain medication schedule.) His surgeon Dr. Mulebach did three bi-passes that same day and everyone of them was at least a triple bi-pass, two of them included the valve repair. It was absolutly great and they had everything down to the last degree. I always knew what was going on, we felt very informed and involved. I really can't say enough about that place. They all really seemed to want to be there doing what they do, again unlike our local hospital.
The downside was my father is up there in age pretty good and did stay in ICU much longer then usual and stayed in the hospital longer then usual. Still it did all work out great.
I hope all is well with you and your family, please keep us informed.
