First in India: PGI Chandigarh performs two cases of orbital atherectomy procedures

Prof and Head Dr. Yash Paul Sharma and his team performed two treatments by using this procedure in patients having heavily calcified coronary arteries, a statement noted.

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One patient was an 84-year-old man having angina at rest and had severely calcified tortuous left anterior descending artery.

The patient was at high risk for coronary artery bypass surgery as the anatomy of his vessels was unsuitable for bypass graft. So, the angioplasty was done using this new procedure.

Orbital atherectomy is a novel therapy used for lesion preparation of calcified plaque before percutaneous coronary intervention and stenting.

It has a 1.25 mm diamond-coated crown which ablates the calcium into fine particles approximately 2 micron in size and creates micro fractures in the calcium, said the statement.

The Department of Cardiology has implemented a strategic, innovative and ultra-precision approach which has helped it in maintaining the least mortality in acutely ill cardiac patients, including patients with acute coronary syndrome (heart attack) and cardiogenic shock.

Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported that the premier Health Institute, the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGI Chandigarh) had successfully performed its first-ever simultaneous pancreas and kidney transplant on a Type-I diabetes patient. It was possible after a 21-year-old accident victim's family came forward to donate organs. The PGI Chandigarh had conducted its first-ever simultaneous pancreas and kidney transplants involving retrieval of the pancreas from a deceased donor while the kidney was donated by the sister of a patient. In a statement on Monday, the institute said the magnanimous gesture of the family of the donor, Kundan Baitha, saved four lives.