You can’t drink alcohol after stenting, and you should stop drinking and smoking once you are diagnosed with coronary artery disease.
Stenting, as an important treatment modality to unblock coronary arteries and reconnect them, is more and more widely used as the price of stents decreases. Stents are often implanted in locations where the stenosis is most severe, while coronary atherosclerosis is widespread and atherosclerosis remains.
Alcohol consumption is one of the risk factors for coronary artery disease, and abstinence from alcohol is required upon diagnosis of coronary artery disease, as well as after stenting, to avoid alcohol exacerbating atherosclerosis elsewhere and triggering restenosis in the stent. Alcohol also damages heart muscle cells, leading to alcoholic cardiomyopathy, and damages the liver, leading to alcoholic liver disease.
Therefore, you should not drink alcohol after stenting or diagnosis of coronary artery disease, and you should take your medication on time and follow your doctor’s instructions.