How we do it

If your legs gets tired on walking small distance, and you have to stop for a while, you may be suffering from blockage of arteries of limbs. This condition is similar to that of heart attack, where arteries are blocked leading to your heart. Block arteries can be a serious condition; which if not treated urgently can lead to gangrene of leg which can lead to amputation or even be a threat to life. These arteries can be treated without surgery by performing Thrombolysis, Angioplasty and stenting (procedure similar to that for heart).

This technique of angioplasty and stenting is commonly performed in following organs:

a) Brain: Angioplasty and stenting is performed in blood vessels supplying brain for prevention of stroke/brain attack/paralysis. Patients usually ignore warning signs in the form of Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA) which are painless, symptoms of sudden weakness, inability to speak, blurring of vision are transient and patient recovers completely. This is the time when they should investigate and get angioplasty and stenting with protection device at the earliest.

b) Kidney: If blood supply to kidneys is affected by narrowing of blood vessels supplying kidneys, this results in high blood pressure and derangement of kidney functions. Angioplasty and stenting of blood vessels of kidney done in time, preserves kidneys functions and helps in control of blood pressure.

c) Intestine: Three major blood vessels supply intestine, if two blood vessels are critically obstructed patient will have pain in abdomen after meals, as after eating intestine requires maximum of pure blood supply. Angioplasty and stenting of these blood vessels will relieve pain in abdomen after meals.

Expertise, skill and hardware is now available to treat blocked vessels in any part of the body, even penile erectile dysfunction can be treated by this technique.