Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru
With Inputs from Media Release

Mangaluru, Dec 1: N Rajaram Rao, a 74-year-old man from Moodbidri, got fresh lease of life by implanting stent to his abdominal aorta and arteries of both legs and kidney at Indiana Hospital by a team of doctors of led by chief interventional cardiologist Dr Yusuf Kumble.

N Rajaram Rao was experiencing abdominal pain since a few months. He had a large aneurism in the blood pipe of abdomen extending upto both legs. He was referred to Bangalore Hospital but as it is a very rare abnormality, correction of this abnormality was almost impossible by surgery and by any intervention. So he left Bangalore. His days were counted as this huge aneurysm was growing day by day, reaching 80 mm (whereas normal is 30 mm).

He then came to know about Indiana Hospital and the challenge was taken up by a team of doctors led by Dr Yusuf Kumble, chief interventional cardiologist, Dr Anand, chief cardiothoracic surgeon, Dr Mansoor, Dr Sharath and Dr Chethana Anand.

Abdominal aorta aneurysm is a rare disease, hence surgical correction is of high risk. It can be corrected by intervention without surgery but it is not commonly done. A large coveted stent can be placed inside the abdomen through artery of lower limb and blood is passed through the artificial pipe from upper part of the body to the lower part excluding aneurysm. Slowly aneurism will regress and vanish.

The challenge in this patient was that there was no gap to keep this device below the kidney arteries and aneurism was extending to both lower limbs. Doctors preferred a very rare technique called chimmney procedure with huge pipe inserted inside the abdomen artery with stenting of kidney artery. This is for the first time it was done in Karnataka. It took more than 4 hours. Patient recovered within 24 hours and he is moving without any problem.

Abdomen aota aneurism (AAA) is a rare disease affecting the elderly. Risk of death is almost 50% in six months. This kind of procedure can save lives.

Indeed, this is a rare achievement by Indiana Hospital.