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Sharjah Hospital Offers New Angioplasty Procedure
Al Qasimi Hospital in Sharjah is now offering a new type of angioplasty for patients with rare and high-risk coronary heart disease.
A team of interventional cardiology experts at the hospital this week successfully treated the first patient who underwent the new procedure called Controlled Antegrade and Retrograde Subintimal Tracking (CART) which saw the hospital adopting the “retrograde approach in angioplasty” for the first time.
CEO of the Hospital Dr Arif Al Nooryani said the new technique, developed by Japanese experts, was becoming very popular in other parts of the world in the treatment of high-risk patients.
Dr Al Nooryani, who is also the head of the cardiac surgery department at the hospital, told Khaleej Times that the retrograde approach was mainly beneficial when the normal procedure called antegrade fails in making a frontal crossing of a wire in severely blocked arteries (chronic coronary total occlusion).
Through the CART procedure, a combination of both antegrade and retrograde techniques are used to get the optimum result in the angioplasty. “Though it is a high-risk procedure, it has the benefits of causing less bleeding, low risk for stroke and infection than a surgery,” the doctor said.
He said the hospital donated two special stents worth Dh15,000 to the middle-aged Pakistani national who underwent the new procedure after having a severely weak left artery. A Japanese expert had trained the hospital team last year.
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