JAIPUR: West Bengal governor Jagdeep Dhankhar inaugurated the robotic angioplasty facility at a private hospital in Jaipur on Friday.
Dr Ravinder Singh Rao, chairman of heart centre at Rajasthan hospital said, “Blockages at the main areas of the coronary artery, tortuous blockages, or blockages at the origin, are vital blockages. A leading international research has shown that almost half of stents are not optimally placed resulting in longitudinal geographical miss. It means that some areas of the blockages, either at beginning or at the end are missed or not covered with the stent.”
He said, “If the stent is not placed at the right position, there is 2.3 times chance that the patient will require repeat angioplasty in near future, compared to patients in whom the stent is placed at the right position. Moreover, in routine angioplasty, if the blockage is missed by one stent, a second stent is used. Robotic angioplasty reduces the necessity of a second stent in such cases.”
“Robotic angioplasty helps in accurate stent placement in tortuous coronary vessels. Additionally, the radiation exposure to the patient is decreased by 20 percent compared to the normal angioplasty,” he said.
