Port Blair, Apr 22: From open surgery to laparoscopic keyhole surgery, the world is moving now towards interventional radiology, and A & N Islands is not behind in embracing it.
Dr. Kranti Rathod, a Interventional Radiologist from KEM Hospital, Mumbai, has joined Chakraborty Multi Specialty Hospital (CMSH) as a visiting consultant. He successfully performed two cases of Bronchial artery embolization for chronic blood in cough- (haemoptysis) and one Splenic artery coiling for patient with Hypersplenism (spleen is enlarged and becomes a one way traffic for blood).
These procedures were done by a single injection port at groin and then advancing a micro- catheter to the respective organ’s blood supply and blocking the culprit artery with coils, glue foam or PVA particles whichever is suitable. Its requires extreme skill and guidance under a Cath lab machine called Digital Substraction Angiography (DSA) system, which is available at CMSH. So the patient can go home after 24-48 hours without a single stitch.
Of late the indication of interventional radiology has expanded to liver failure patient with ascites, females with excessive blood loss due to fibroid uterus, renal artery stenting, aortic- aneurysm coiling, cerebral angioplasty or AVM coiling for stroke patients etc. It’s USP is organ preservation and no surgical wound.
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