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CLINICAL SERVICES > INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY

		Device Closure
		Ballon Valuoplasty
		PTCA and Stenting
		Coil Occlusion

CLINICAL SERVICES > INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY >

Device Closure

A hole in the heart is a commonly used term when we think of children born with heart disease. However all such holes do not need surgery, special devices called umbrellas mounted on wires can be sent up to the heart from the leg to close them. Advantages of this type of closure include a less than 24 hour hospital Stay, rapid recovery and no scar.

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Balloon Valvuoplasty

Certain types of throat infections can sometimes affect the heart in varying degrees. By far the commonest problem is, fusing of the valve leaflet tightly together preventing from allowing blood
to flow freely past it. Previously surgical freeing was the only solution. However present day valve
obstructions can be treated without surgery. Valves with normal texture be opened forcibly by
inflating a balloon across narrowed area.

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PTCA and Stenting

Once the blocks are identified by Coronary Angiography, a balloon is inflated over the narrowed areas restoring normal flow. Then tiny metallic spring like meshes called STENTS are expanded over them to prevent the vessels from closing again.

Before and after pictures of a successful angioplasty and stenting

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Coil Occlusion

A small fragment of congenital heart disorders involves abnormal communications between the blood vessels of the right side (carry impure blood away from the heart for purifying) and left side (carry pure blood to the entire body). This earlier necessitated surgical intervention, however today we can close these unwanted persistent communicating vessels with specially designed occluders are deployed from inside the vessel during cardiac catheterization, similar to the route used in Coronary Angiograms involving only a 2 day hospital stay.