Minimally invasive heart surgery: Faster healing, less trauma for patients
Elise Riley, for Parrish Medical Center
If the five most welcome words in medicine are “The test results were negative,” there is most definitely a runner up: “It’s a minimally invasive procedure.”
In the world of cardiac medicine, minimally invasive procedures have changed just about everything. Instead of surgically opening a patient’s chest to investigate and repair, surgeons can complete previously complicated procedures through tiny incisions, using state-of-the-art instruments that would impress even the Jetsons.
“Minimally invasive procedures are preferred by patients and practitioners alike because they are proven to result in better overall patient outcomes; less pain and faster recovery,” said Dr. Biju Mathews, board-certified interventional cardiologist and Medical Director of Parrish Healthcare’s cardiovascular services.
Raising awareness of heart disease in women
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National Wear Red Day or Go Red for Women day is Friday, February 5, 2021. Heart disease is the number one killer for women, and so we would like to put an end to that, and really start making a difference and impact those statistics.
Pam Shadowens, the Cardiac Cath Lab Manager at Memorial Hospital of Carbondale, says instances of heart disease among women is higher than some may realize.
But why? Poor detection, says Dr. Cesar Coello, a Cardiologist with Prairie Cardiovascular. Heart disease in women can be sometimes very difficult to detect because symptoms may be atypical.
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], February 5 (ANI/NewsVoir): Kauvery Hospital, one of the leading healthcare chains in Tamil Nadu, launched the state s first laser angioplasty centre. Laser angioplasty is a technique where laser light is used to remove blockages in coronary arteries that are traditionally labelled, not treatable with angioplasty. Recently a 60-year-old woman was successfully treated through laser angioplasty by the team at Kauvery Hospital.
Dr Manivannan Selvaraj, founder and Managing Director, Kauvery Group of Hospitals, Revathy (patient) who underwent the laser angioplasty and Dr Gopalamurugan Senior Interventional Cardiologist & Electrophysiologist, Chief of Department for Transcatheter Valve and Endovascular Therapies In this procedure, a catheter is inserted into an artery that emits advanced laser light rays which eliminates tough blockages in its path, the ones which could not have been treated with conventional angioplasty, explained Dr A B Gopalamurugan,
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Cardiology dept of LRH short of coronary stents
National
January 28, 2021
PESHAWAR: The Cardiology Department of Lady Reading Hospital (LRH) is again in the headlines due to the inability of the hospital administration as well as of the Board of Governors (BoG) to ensure the availability of coronary stents to the cardiac patients in the hospital that ended three weeks ago.
Officials in the LRH administration and sources in the Cardiology Department told The News that there had been no coronary stents in the hospital for the past three weeks but the hospital administration failed in making any arrangement.
According to the sources in the hospital administration, the Cardiology Department had already been squeezed by giving the entire department to the corona patients and all routine procedures stopped since the outbreak of the second wave of the infectious disease.