A 45-year-old lady from Bargarh( Odisha) suffering from severe breathing difficulty was diagnosed with mitral stenosis – a heart condition where the largest left sided valve does not open as wide as it should. She visited one of the hospitals in Raipur, who referred her to MMI Narayana Multispeciality Hospital, where she was advised to undergo a procedure called Balloon Valvotomy, which would widen the valve.
However, on further examination she was found to have an additional disease – an obstruction in the Abdominal Aorta– blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the abdomen and lower limbs was totally occluded. Under the guidance of Dr. Sumanta Shekhar Padhi, Consultant Interventional Cardiologist at MMI Narayana Multispeciality Hospital and his team of experts, the patient was recommended a medical innovation that required the procedure to be performed in a different manner, thereby avoiding any surgery.