A 56-year-old man waitlisted for liver transplant underwent a life-saving procedure in a city hospital. He was treated with a coronary laser atherectomy and angioplasty using a drug-eluting balloon procedure in Kauvery Hospital here recently.
R. Anantharaman, senior consultant intervention cardiologist in Kauvery Hospital, said the patient had undergone angioplasty and stenting of the left anterior descending coronary artery (it supplies oxygenated blood to the muscles of the left ventricle of the heart) in 2006 and when it failed a coronary artery bypass surgery was done in 2010 for all three blood vessels of the heart.
Recently, he was diagnosed with liver failure and advised liver transplantation.
