New techniques of surgery at Andhra Hospitals

Using arterial grafts, which can substitute the conventional use of veins and other limb arteries during bypass surgery, will yield long time benefits among operated patients.

The usage of internal mammary arteries will prevent blockage of veins with its rare and efficient characteristics among other blood vessels, said Cardiologist Dr J Srimannarayan, in the city on Friday.

Addressing the newsmen at Brain and Heart Institute, Srimannarayan who was one among others who performed more than 10 such surgeries said that the general bypass procedure of taking limbs from legs will cause blockage of veins within a short span of time unlike the visceral arteries which produce nitric oxide and leave no space for fat penetration into them.

Doctors of Andhra Hospitals have adopted the technique which is offered by a very few hospitals in the country. To educate people about the technique is our duty and the advantages of it are that the Coronary arteries are replaced with arteries and not veins.

More than 94 per cent of the patients have not suffered any blockages until the period of 10 years, according to a worldwide study on scientific papers. In this technique, we completely avoid manipulations over aorta hence post operative neurological events can be excluded.

It can also avoid wounds and visible scars over the limbs and ensure patient discharge from the hospital as early as possible, he added. At Andhra Hospitals, more than 10 such surgeries with an average of more than 3 grafts per patients were accomplished.

There is a hundred per cent success rate, he added. Managing Director of the Hospitals Dr P V Ramana Murthy, Cardiothoracic surgeon Dr Dilip Kumar Ratti, Cardiac Anaesthesiologist Dr J Ramesh, Dr Tulasiram and others were present.