CTO-Coronary Angioplasty performed
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, November 03 2015:
For the first, SKY Hospital, RIMS Road performed a CTO-Coronary Angioplasty for a 65-year-old man on October 27 .
Ruwangshang of Chandel district suffered from CTO (Chronic Total Occlusion) with 100 per cent blockage involving 50 mm long proximal segment of Left Anterior Descending (LAD) artery of the heart, said a statement.
For such long segment CTO heart operation with By-Pass Graft (CABG) is usually required, said the statement and added that Ruwangshang did not want heart operation and he opted for balloon angioplasty with stent.
The complex coronary angioplasty was performed, first by crossing the CTO with a special strong metallic guidewire.
The lumen of the artery was initially dilated using a smaller balloon (1.5 mm diameter).
The size of the arterial lumen was gradually increased by inflating slightly bigger balloon (2.5 mm diameter) to allow the stents to go in.
Finally, 2 Drug Eluting Stents (DES) overlapping each other were deployed which completely opened up the obstruction and covered the full length of the obstructed segment, restoring normal blood flow through the affected artery using the state of the Art Philips Cath Lab with Stentboost Technology, added the statement.
CTO - angioplasty is performed in only selected heart institutes across the world as the success rate is low and complication rate is high as compared to non-CTO coronary angioplasty.
The statement claimed that SKY Hospital has now joined the club of those premier heart hospitals doing such complex coronary angioplasty.
Dr L Shyamkishore, Chief Cardiologist and Chairman who led the team expressed his happiness on the outcome of the procedure and pledged that SKY Hospital would provide such procedures/operation (Coronary Angioplasty/PCI) free of cost along with free hospital charge (from admission to discharge) for BPL families and senior citizens of Manipur and other North East States of India.