Asian Heart Institute became one of the first few hospitals in the country to conduct an angioplasty with the new generation biodegradable stent. Surgeons here successfully performed a biodegradable stent implant on a patient on the first day after the launch of Abbott’s Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffold in the country.
A team of surgeons, including cardiologists Dr Nilesh Gautam and Dr Praveen Kulkarni performed the procedure on 49 year-old Sushma Mallawat with 100 per cent blockage in her Left Anterior Decending Artery (LADA).
This was a high risk case as the patient was diabetic with acute coronary syndrome and had symptoms of breathlessness, chest pain and her heart pumping was less than 35 per cent, said doctors.
Doctors opened the blockage and placed the 2.5mm x 28mm size biodegradable stent in the blocked artery.
According to doctors, this new generation bioresorbable stent serve the same purpose as that of the normal stent, but is manufactured from a material that dissolves in the body over time.
Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction has been achieved which is considered as the best, said doctors.
EH News Bureau