IGMC-Shimla doctors save 29-year-old with stent, major surgery averted

Tribune News Service

Shimla, December 17

In a rare feat, the cardiologists of Indira Gandhi Medical College (IGMC) saved a 29-year-old woman by Endovascular Aneurysmal Closure, avoiding the risk of a major surgery, which could have proved fatal.

This is one of a kind intervention performed at the IGMC, in which the large Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm with impending rupture was successfully tackled without opening up the abdomen.

The patient hails from Pangana in Karsog tehsil of Mandi district. She had perpetual pain in the abdomen and back for nearly three months. The CT scan pointed out that there was large out pouching measuring 5cm x 5cm in the artery which supplies fresh blood to the body. The out pouching was about to rupture and an Endovascular Graft Stent (a stent which is covered completely from outside) was placed in the Abdominal Aorta across the Aneurysm.

There were no associated complications and the pain subsided on the operating table itself. The procedure, which lasted around an hour, was done under local anesthesia, said Prof Arvind Kandoria, Department of Cardiology, IGMC.

The other members of the operating team included

Dr Rajesh Sharma (Assistant Professor, Cardiology), Dr Rahul Nijhawan (Senior Resident, Cardiology),

Dr Seema Panwar (Associate Professor, CTVS), Dr Rajesh Chopra (Assistant Professor, CTVS).