L-R: Cardiac cath lab started to operate in Khulna Shaheed Seikh Abu Naser Specialised Hospital. Now Patients of south Bengal will have access to world class interventional cardiology.
Expert in the Apollo Heart Centre has recently used a better technique to unblock an artery (blood vessel) in the abdomen. Dr Tamzeed Ahmed (left), Senior Cardiology Consultant of Apollo Heart Centre put a stent to pop open the main blood vessel supplying blood to lower limbs (abdominal aorta). This procedure was done through radial route (through the artery by wrist), which is a modern and less hazardous technique used by expert cardiologists to stent artery to heart.