Media Release
Mangalore, Jul 5: The micro mesh stent was successfully used for the first time for a heart attack patient by Dr Paul Varghese, interventional cardiologist, recently at the Unity Heart Institute, Unity Health Complex to obtain an excellent result.
One of the complications of using standard stents in an acute heart attack setting is that blood clots can fragment during stenting and find their way downstream to cause plugging of smaller vessels.
To prevent this complication, the new MGUARD stent has a micro-net mesh on the outside of the stent which prevents clots from going down stream. Recent trial results unveiled at Paris in May 2013 showed that these stents had superior results compared to standard drug coated stents and bare metal stents in the setting of acute heart attacks.