As many as 60 leading, practising interventional cardiologists from all over the country recently gathered at Mumbai’s Jaslok Hospital and Research Centre to get acquainted with a newer technique and hardware developed by the Japanese medical fraternity to ease even 100 per cent blockage of coronary artery.
The latest in the treatment of chronic heart ailment amongst all the interventional cardiology procedures, it is called "chronic total occlusion," and it is the most demanding and challenging one. A live demonstration of three different operations was conducted by Dr Toshiya Muramatsu who is the chief director of cardiovascular division, Saiseikai Yokohama City Eastern Hospital, Yokohama, Japan and Dr A.B. Mehta, director of cardiovascular division at Jaslok Hospital, played the role of moderator.
The rare kind of live demo workship was conducted on the 17th floor of the hospital, and the attending cardiologists listened to Dr Mehta speak on a screen on the third floor. Dr Mehta, who has already literally touched hearts of most of the leading corporate leaders, politicians and film personalities in the country including J.R.D.Tata, Morarji Desai and Lata Mangeshkar, just to mention a few, said, "We, at Jaslok, have already achieved a higher rate of success and intend to transfer this technology to a wider section of the cardiology community by holding this workshop for cardiologists.
Chronic Total Occlusion
Chronic total occlusion (CTO) is defined as an artery that has been completely occluded for greater than 30 days. Chronically occluded coronary arteries account for approximately 20 to 30 per cent of the documented coronary disease encountered in coronary catheterisation labs today. In simple words, CTO is a condition of complete obstructions or blockages of an artery that can lead to worsening conditions.
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