| What is Angioplasty Surgery? | | | | - Damage to a heart valve or bloodvessel |
| Angioplasty opens blocked arteries and restarts | | | | - Heart attack |
| normal blood flow to your heart muscle. It is not | | | | - Kidney failure (higher risk inpeople who already |
| a major surgery. It is done by inflating a tiny | | | | have kidney problems) |
| balloon at the side of the block. In many patients | | | | - Irregular heartbeats (arrhythmias) |
| a collapsed wire mesh tube called a stent is | | | | - Stroke (this is rare) |
| deployed at the site of narrowing. This acts as a | | | | - Allergic reaction to the stentmaterial |
| scaffolding to help prevent it from renarrowing | | | | - Allergic reaction to the drug usedin a drug-eluting |
| after the angioplasty. During an angioplasty, also | | | | stent |
| called percutaneous transluminal coronary | | | | - Blood clot |
| angioplasty (PTCA), a guide wire is passed directly | | | | - Clogging of the inside of thestent (in-stent |
| to the blocked vessel. A tiny, deflated balloon is | | | | restenosis) |
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| Before the angioplasty procedure begins, you will | | | | Angioplasty surgery. |
| be given some pain medicine. You may also be | | | | Angioplasty Surgery Specialist in Bangalore |
| given blood thinning medicines to keep a blood clot | | | | Dr. Rehan Sayeed is the best and well known |
| from forming. | | | | doctor for this treatment in Banaglore. Dr. Rehan |
| You will lie down on a padded table. Your doctor | | | | Sayeed is an alumnus from the prestigious Madras |
| will make a small cut (incision) on your body, | | | | Medical College where he did his basic medical |
| usually near the groin. Then your doctor will insert | | | | education and went onto to complete his general |
| a catheter (flexible tube) through the incision into | | | | surgery training. His quest for knowledge and skill |
| an artery. Sometimes the catheter will be placed | | | | took him to the United Kingdom where he |
| in your arm or wrist. You will be awake during the | | | | graduated to become a Fellow of the Royal |
| procedure. | | | | college of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He subsequently |
| The doctor uses live x-ray pictures to carefully | | | | returned to India to do his Cardiothoracic training |
| guide the catheter up into your heart and arteries. | | | | from Apollo Hospitals, Chennai under the |
| Dye will be injected into your body to highlight | | | | mentorship of Dr. M R Girinath where he |
| blood flow through the arteries. This helps the | | | | graduated with a Diplomate of the National Board |
| doctors see any blockages in the blood vessels | | | | of Examinations. |
| that lead to your heart. | | | | He joined Apollo Hospitals, Chennai as a Senior |
| A guide wire is moved into and across the | | | | Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon and in January |
| blockage. A balloon catheter is pushed over the | | | | of 2007 he set up the cardiothoracic department |
| guide wire and into the blockage. The balloon on | | | | at Apollo Hospitals, Bangalore. He has been the |
| the end is blown up (inflated). This opens the | | | | coordinator of the department since. The proud |
| blocked vessel and restores proper blood flow to | | | | owner of the single largest series of Minimal |
| the heart. | | | | access off pump bypass surgery in the world he |
| A stent (wire mesh tube) may then be placed in | | | | has been an innovator always looking for new |
| this blocked area. The stent is inserted along with | | | | frontiers. He does most of his surgeries through |
| the balloon catheter. It expands when the balloon | | | | the minimal access approach and has the largest |
| is inflated. The stent is then left there to help | | | | single surgeon series in the |
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| Risks Angioplasty is generally safe, but ask your | | | | Rehan Sayeed initiative to provide quality |
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| - Allergic reaction to the x-ray dye | | | | rehan@heartcareforyou.in for specialist cardiac |
| - Bleeding or clotting in the areawhere the | | | | help. |
| catheter was inserted | | | | |