Reshma/Aligarh

Cardiologists at the Medical college of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) have created history by treating patients who had the blood circulation to their hearts slowed down due to blocked vessels with a new technique.

The technique can make the patients of Coronary heart disease avoid a painful and costly open heart surgery.

According to Prof M U Rabbani, head of the Cardiology department of the Medical college, the technique is called intravascular ultrasound (IVUS), coronary vessel imaging and optical coherence tomography (OCT).

The team of surgeons performed this new method of treating severely blocked arteries on six heart patients as teams from a US Medical company watched it online.

Rabbani described it as a ‘great success.’

All the six patients had their key artery taking blood to the heart blocked due to high calcium deposits inside. They were waiting for their turn to undergo the open heart bypass surgery.

However, the surgeons’ team decided to go ahead with the new technique and it worked. All the patients were treated with angioplasty, a non-invasive method of treating blockages.

This non-invasive blockage removal surgery was seen online by medical experts from Boston Scientific and Medtronics, USA, and directors of Interventional Cardiology, Max Saket Hospital, New Delhi

Rabbani said the stenting process is not only complicated, it’s also done at a very high price in super specialty hospitals in big cities while at the AMU Medical College, it can be done at a low price.