Consider the following medical report that includes the patient's historical health records. Use it to predict the disease that the patient is high likely exposed to. 

 Medical Report: history of present illness: the patient is a 72-year-old male who presented for placement of a carotid stent. past medical history: his past medical history is significant for non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, a cerebrovascular accident in with no residual defects, high cholesterol, and he has bilateral carotid stenosis, and he denies any chest pain, pressure or palpitations. past surgical history: he past surgical history is significant for left carotid stenting in , status post cholecystectomy in , and status post back surgery in and . social history: he has no smoking history. he denies drinking alcohol. medications on admission: his medications included actos 45 mg p.o. q.d., pravachol 40 mg p.o. q.d., aspirin 325 mg p.o. q.d., plavix 75 mg p.o. q.d., and atolide 300 mg p.o. q.d. physical examination on presentation: on examination, he was found to be afebrile and vital signs were stable. he had a flushed face. he had no lymphadenopathy. a soft carotid bruit on the right side. lungs were clear to auscultation bilaterally. normal first heart sound and second heart sound. a regular rate and rhythm. he a grade 2/6 systolic murmur. abdomen was soft and nontender. no hepatosplenomegaly. positive bowel sounds. he had positive distal pulses in his extremities bilaterally. he had no edema. cranial nerves ii through xii were intact. hospital course: the patient presented for right carotid stent on . the patient tolerated the procedure well. he went to the unit postoperatively for monitoring and was kept on heparin. he had a right internal carotid artery stent placed on . on postoperative day one, he was afebrile. his vital signs were stable. he was making adequate urine, adequately heparinized. he did well, and he was transferred to the floor. on postoperative day two, he was monitored on the floor overnight, heparinized until the morning. his foley came out, and he went home afebrile with stable vital signs. condition at discharge: on postoperative day three, he tolerating a regular diet and in stable condition. discharge diagnoses: status post right internal carotid artery stenting. discharge followup: he was to follow up with dr. . medications on discharge: (his medications on discharge included) 1. avalide 300 mg p.o. q.d. 2. pravachol 40 mg p.o. q.d. 3. actos 45 mg p.o. q.d. 4. aspirin 325 mg p.o. q.d. 5. plavix 75 mg p.o. q.d. , m.d. dictated by: medquist36 procedure: angioplasty of other non-coronary vessel(s) insertion of non-drug-eluting peripheral (non-coronary) vessel stent(s) diagnoses: pure hypercholesterolemia unspecified essential hypertension diabetes mellitus without mention of complication, type ii or unspecified type, not stated as uncontrolled occlusion and stenosis of carotid artery without mention of cerebral infarction 

Answer: The patient is high likely exposed to