The team of doctors in Chhattisgarh’s largest government hospital has given new life to a 72-year-old man. For the first time, Dr. Smit Srivastava and his team at Ambedkar Hospital, Raipur, have performed a very complicated operation to open the blocked vein of the heart using two methods simultaneously. This is the first case of its kind in any government hospital when doctors have saved the patient’s life by performing surgery through two methods.
This successful operation has been done at the Advanced Cardiac Institute of the hospital where the blockage (calcified) in the veins of the heart of the elderly was broken by shockwave intravascular lithotripsy and by excimer coronary laser atherectomy method, successful angioplasty was performed.
Regarding this case, Dr. Smit Srivastava, Head of the Department of Cardiology told that when this elderly resident of Mahasamund came to the hospital, the heart was working only up to 30 percent. The flow of blood had stopped in the number one vein of the left side of the heart. Looking at the case history and old age of the patient, it was decided that first by lithotripsy and then by laser method, angioplasty would be performed by breaking the frozen calcium in the vein. Earlier in the year 2019, the first excimer coronary laser atherectomy was performed at ACI.
Along with that, the first intravascular lithotripsy was also done here, but by using both these methods together, for the first time, the blockage of the veins of the heart of a patient was opened. The blockage had become so severe that nothing was going through except the wire used to perform the angioplasty. Dr. Smit told that the process of breaking the calcium rock in the vein of the heart was exactly the same as breaking the rock in a tunnel with dynamite and making a way inside. Doctors broke the rock through eight intravascular lithotripsy shock waves of ten seconds each, removed it by steaming it through the excimer laser wavelength and successfully performed angioplasty on the patient. The patient is now healthy after treatment.
