Docs carry out mechanical thrombectomy at metropolis hospital

Docs at Rela Hospital in Chennai have efficiently carried out a mechanical thrombectomy, a catheter-based process used to bodily extract a blood clot from the lung artery.

In keeping with a press launch, the process was carried out on a 42-year-old affected person, who had suffered an harm to his left leg and subsequently developed deep vein thrombosis (DVT), a situation during which a blood clot kinds within the deep veins of the leg.

The clot finally blocked the circulate of blood to the guts. The affected person suffered a number of cardiac arrests. The emergency division of the hospital recognized a pulmonary embolism, and the thrombectomy was carried out by Shabnam Fathima A., marketing consultant, vascular surgical procedure, with the help of a multidisciplinary crew of specialists.