Food, dyes, and supplements that can cause green stool include: When these foods, dyes, and supplements are withdrawn from the diet, the stool should return to its normal color within a day. An infant's first bowel movements are typically green-black in color. This is called meconium â you should not see it after the infant is 3 days old.
If you are retuning home on the day of your angioplasty, you will stay in the hospital for four to six hours after the angioplasty is completed. After this observation period, you will be allowed to go home. Have someone drive you home after you procedure. You should not drive home yourself.
Your body isn't cut open except for a very small incision in the skin over a blood vessel in the leg, arm or wrist through which a small, thin tube (catheter) is threaded and the procedure performed. Angioplasty can take up to several hours, depending on the difficulty and number of blockages and whether any complications arise. Angioplasty is performed by a heart specialist (cardiologist) and a team of specialized cardiovascular nurses and technicians in a special operating room called a cardiac catheterization laboratory.