PGIMER performs rare high-risk heart surgery on 90-year-old patient
Doctors have performed the highly complex and lifesaving angioplasty on a patient who was suffering from a weak heart and critical coronary artery disease and severe COPD and was too old and weak to undergo open-heart surgery.;
Chandigarh: Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research's Advanced Cardiac Centre has done a rare high-risk surgery on a 90-year-old man, the first in the institute's history.
A team of doctors under the guidance of Yash Paul Sharma have performed the highly complex and lifesaving angioplasty on a patient who was suffering from a weak heart and critical coronary artery disease and severe COPD and was too old and weak to undergo open-heart surgery.
Himanshu Gupta, Associate Professor, explained the patient was not fit for open heart surgery but at the same time the angioplasty procedure was also very complex and high risk as the patient had heavily calcified left main trifurcation disease with a weak heart.
"In this procedure, we used the Impella device, which is a miniature heart pump that supports the patient vitals during the process of angioplasty," he told IANS on Thursday.
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