Finding the answers for heart problems

While eminent cardiologist and the convention president, Dr B K Goyal said, quot;Nearly 10,000 coronary interventional procedures are done in India every year, half of which end up in stents being inserted in the arteries.quot; He stressed the need for collection of more scientific data on the occurance and the treatment of the diseases all over the country. However, with the advent of new technologies like laser surgery and introduction of cathelab, he felt that the spread of the disease could be checked.

Dr Patrick L Whitlow from Cleveland University, felt that even though repeated intervention had been the major failure of angioplasty, the procedure8217;s success rate is on a rise due to introduction of new procedures like rotablation and stents with the help of intravascular ultrasound.