Raipur doctors perform world’s first successful laser angioplasty

Both the renal and coronary arteries were simultaneously treated, averting the possibility of kidney and heart failure.“This seems to be the first recorded case in the world, in which a chronic total occlusion of the kidney arteries was treated by laser angioplasty, as per the available medical literature. The patient was successfully treated using Excimer laser method for a 100 percent blockage in the left artery supplying blood to the kidney and 90 per cent occlusion in the main artery of a heart. A surviving kidney after 100 per cent arterial block has a very rare chance, as a kidney shrinks without the blood supply”, said Dr Shrivastava. He further added that the patient had a previously placed stent in a private hospital in 2023 which was apparently entirely closed causing severe heart complications, hypertension and breathing difficulties.



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