KOCHI: For the first time in Kerala, calcium deposits that blocked the blood vessels in a affected person’s leg had been eliminated utilizing a complicated expertise known as Intravascular lithotripsy (IVL).
The process was performed for a 75-year-old affected person who was hospitalized with uncontrolled diabetes with a non-healing ulcer, at VPS Lakeshore Hospital right here. The therapy procedures had been led by Dr. Cibi Issac and Dr. Anand Kumar V, senior consultants in the Dept of Cardiology on the hospital.
When the affected person was hospitalised two weeks again, he was additionally affected by extreme ache in his proper leg. “Doppler research of the leg confirmed decreased blood move to the leg which was confirmed by an angiogram. The most important blood vessel to the leg was completely occluded and there was heavy calcification in the stenosed space,” a launch by the hospital stated. Unfortunately, normal angioplasty balloons couldn’t open the vessel due to calcification, it stated.
Hence, the doctors used the brand new expertise known as Intravascular lithotripsy (for breaking the calcium in this affected person which was executed for the first time in a leg blood vessel in Kerala. The IVL process makes use of a particular balloon that may emit sound waves to the blocked space and this sonic power can break the calcium. Finally, the process was accomplished by implanting stents which resulted in good blood move. The affected person had aid of ache in the leg and his ulcer is therapeutic slowly now.
Dr. Cibi Issac, who led the therapy, stated the benefit of this expertise is that it may be executed via a pinhole made in the groin beneath native anesthesia with minimal problems. “We can hope that an increasing number of sufferers will profit from this expertise in the longer term,” he stated.
