SHORT CERT LIKELY — 1-YEAR
The checker reads your verdict. The Kit gets you through the exam: documentation packets for your condition, the two 45-day form clocks run as a calendar, the official medication form packet, waiting-period calendars, failure recovery, and the examiner phone script.
Federal source: FMCSA Medical Examiner's Handbook 2024, Cardiovascular · Rules checked October 2026
Advisory criteria: a waiting period of about 1 week after an elective stent procedure when the driver is asymptomatic, then certification at 1-year intervals, with an exercise tolerance test at 3–6 months and periodically after. If the stent was placed during a heart attack, the 2-month heart-attack clock governs instead.
The shortest wait in the heart lattice — if nothing else happened. The 'why' of your procedure matters more than the procedure.
Certificate this points to: 1-YEAR certificates, while the standard's monitoring continues.
Bring the procedure report stating whether it was elective or followed a heart attack, your cardiologist's clearance, and your medication list (blood thinners are judged on their own page).
This question is decided by the federal text together with its published advisory criteria — clocks, thresholds, and specialist files. The verdict above follows the cited criteria; your documentation is what proves you meet them.
Only a certified medical examiner on the National Registry can certify you. FreightVerdict reads the published federal standards — it does not certify, diagnose, or treat, and nothing here is medical advice.
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