Mysore :
The Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Services of JSS Hospital, Mysore, conducted their first ever Rotablation, a revolutionary procedure to treat blocked arteries, at its hospital in city recently.
A team of Cardiologists including Dr. Guruprasad, lead by Dr. Arun Srinivas, performed the procedure.
Two patients, aged 63 and 66 years, with previous history of heart attacks and multiple blockages in their coronary arteries, underwent this procedure. Old age, poor ejection fraction, inefficient left heart pumping and a chronically ailing heart posed significant risk on them for a surgical procedure. Rotablation was the only procedure of choice in such a situation.
Both the patients have been discharged sound and fit and are back to their normal routines at home.
The team of doctors comprising — Dr. Nagaraj Desai, along with Dr. Arun Srinivas, Dr. Shamprasad Shetty, Dr. Sunil Kumar, Dr. Guruprasad, Dr. Umesh Nareppa, Dr. Dinesh Kumar and Dr. Murugesh Wali — successfully conducted the Rotablation procedure.
Dr. Nagaraj Desai, Professor and Head, Cardiovascular and Thoracic Services, JSS Hospital, said that Rotablation is extremely suited for those aged above 60 years, presenting with calcified arteries, where both angioplasty and by-pass surgery are considered difficult.
Speaking on the occasion, Dr. R. K. Charturvedi, Director, JSS Hospital, said that the procedure was a very highly skilled and technically challenging treatment option where only a handful of hospitals in the country offer this procedure.
JSS Medical College Principal, Dr. Basavanagowdappa, said that with the successful conduct of this procedure, JSS Hospital has entered the league of a few elite super specialty cardiac centres in India and added that they were proud to have achieved this milestone.
Dr. R.K. Chaturvedi, Director, JSS Hospital; Dr. Basavanagowdappa, Principal, JSS Medical College; Dr. Nagaraj Desai, Professor and Head, JSS Hridayakshema; Mahesh, Director-Medical Education JSS Mahavidyapeetha; Dr. Arun Srinivas, Professor and Head, Dept. of Cardiology, Dr. Shamprasad Shetty, Professor and Head, Dept. of Cardiovascular Surgery were among those present at the press meet.
What is Rotablation?
Dr. Arun Srinivas, Professor and Head of the Department of Cardiology, said that Rotablation which is also known as Rotational Atherectomy, is a recent development in the field of Interventional Cardiology. It is a revolutionary procedure to remove the blockade in the coronary arteries, supplying the blood to the heart.
Dr. Arun Srinivas, addressing the press meet yesterday, said that this procedure has come as a boon to those patients where the open heart surgery poses a significantly high risk and added that the blockage is removed with a device which rotates at very high speed.
He said that the procedure is done with minimally invasive and does not inflict any major surgical injury to the patient. The patient is generally fit to be discharged in a day or to two, he added.
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