Kolkata, Dec. 3 -- A 78-year-old man from Mizoram, who had been suffering from persistent abdominal and back pain for several months, successfully underwent a highly complex endovascular aortic repair, a minimally invasive procedure to treat a dangerous swelling in the main artery at a private hospital here.
The intricate procedure was performed recently by a team of doctors led by Dr. Dilip Kumar, Director of Cath Lab, Senior Interventional Cardiologist, Device and Structural Heart Expert, Manipal Hospital.
The patient had first gone to a local hospital in Mizoram when his symptoms aggravated, and physicians there diagnosed him with a condition called an aortic aneurysm, a balloon-like swelling in the aorta, the largest blood vessel that...