{"id":6535,"date":"2020-09-19T10:05:33","date_gmt":"2020-09-19T06:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/backup.azhd.ae\/?p=6535"},"modified":"2026-03-17T13:54:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T09:54:36","slug":"heart-attack-patient-undergoes-rare-lifesaving-procedure-usually-used-for-dissolving-kidney-stones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/backup.azhd.ae\/?p=6535","title":{"rendered":"Heart Attack patient undergoes rare lifesaving procedure usually used for dissolving Kidney Stones"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\">\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>A sixty-eight-year-old Indian man undergoes rare life saving procedure after 90% arterial calcified blockage<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>Intravascular lithotripsy opens the door for some difficult heart cases with a safer device as compared to other artery drilling services in the UAE<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-spacer\" style=\"height: 30px;\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u00a0<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dubai \u2013 September 2020 \u2013 A 68-year-old Indian man suffered a severe heart attack on early this September. \u00a0After being rushed to a nearby hospital, the doctors discovered a 90% arterial blockage and recommended coronary bypass surgery. \u00a0However due to his comorbidities the doctors declined angioplasty as deemed too risky in their opinion.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The patient was transferred to Al Zahra Hospital Dubai where the Cardiology team assess the patient and concluded that he can be managed equally well without\u00a0 \u00a0bypass surgery.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI was not mentally ready to go for a bypass surgery especially after the doctors informed me of the risks associated with my condition. \u00a0I also knew that if something was not done urgently, I would have not survived. I am grateful to the doctors and everything they have done for me. I owe them my life\u201d \u2013 Mr. Jayseena<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an attempt to save his life, the Interventional <a href=\"https:\/\/backup.azhd.ae\/doctors-category\/cardiology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cardiology<\/a> team at Al Zahra Hospital Dubai performed a procedure called Lithotripsy, a time-tested technique for kidney stones in practice for more than 3 decades. \u00a0\u00a0A modified miniaturized delivery system mounted in a coronary balloon catheter is available in UAE, after trials in the west.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/backup.azhd.ae\/doctors\/dr-rajeev-lochan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> Dr. Rajeev Lochan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/backup.azhd.ae\/doctors\/dr-behrad-elahi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dr. Behrad Elahi<\/a> \u00a0leading Cardiologists at Al Zahra Hospital Dubai, performed this procedure using a catheter for opening a 3 cm long calcified severe block\/narrowing in heart artery successfully. \u00a0Intra Vascular Lithotripsy (IVL) shockwave therapy cracked open the calcification solid like a rock, making a way a long stent. \u00a0Further testing like Echocardiograms confirmed no damage to heart functioning post procedure.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis novel technique not used very often, was painless, the patient was fully awake communicating with the medical staff around him, while a catheter was inserted in his heart arteries and shockwaves are used to break the calcifications. We had a complete team of cardiology experts assist this procedure from nurses to doctors and technicians all holding significant cardiology training and experience.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr. Jayseena had recovered quickly.\u00a0 He felt comfortable enough to go out same day, but he was kept for monitoring and observation for 2 days and then discharged. His family and he were relieved of stress of going through major heart surgery.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sixty-eight-year-old Indian man undergoes rare life saving procedure after 90% arterial calcified blockage Intravascular lithotripsy opens the door for some difficult heart cases with a safer device as compared to other artery drilling services in the UAE Dubai \u2013 September 2020 \u2013 A 68-year-old Indian man suffered a severe heart attack on early this&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cardiology","category-general","category-98","category-108","description-off"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/backup.azhd.ae\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/backup.azhd.ae\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/backup.azhd.ae\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backup.azhd.ae\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backup.azhd.ae\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6535"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/backup.azhd.ae\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25774,"href":"https:\/\/backup.azhd.ae\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6535\/revisions\/25774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backup.azhd.ae\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/backup.azhd.ae\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backup.azhd.ae\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backup.azhd.ae\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}