Doctors at KIMS Saveera Hospitals in Anantapur saved the life of a 75-year-old septuagenarian patient by performing a cutting balloon angioplasty.

Narayana Swamy, who was brought to emergency at KIMS Saveera Hospitals, with complaints of severe chest pain was diagnosed with a massive heart attack. An emergency Angiogram revealed severe fibrous and calcified blockages in the main vessel of the heart which needed an emergency bypass surgery to save the life of the patient, the hospital said in a release.

As the patient was with severe lung disease and he was at very high risk for a bypass surgery, Dr. Bala Kishore, Consultant Invasiv Cardiologist and his team at KIMS Saveera Hospitals, have decided to conduct innovative cutting balloon angioplasty with stent implantation. In this procedure, Dr Kishore, said, a special balloon tip is used, which has small blades. These small blades are activated once the balloon is inflated. Once the tip is stimulated, the blades spin at high revolutions, cutting away the calcium deposits in the vessels. This is a new age technology we are offering at KIMS Saveera.

This technology will give great results for the patients who are at high risk with calcified blockages, he said cutting Balloon Angioplasty helps in debulking cholesterol and calcium blockages in the vessels of the heart. The results achieved with this procedure has the advantages of less hospital stay, fewer complications with good long-term outcome, besides an effective low-cost procedure, Dr Kishore claimed.