With the aim of allaying fears about cardiovascular procedures for coronary heart diseases, a live angioplasty demonstration for the public will be held at Quilon Beach Hotel auditorium at 6 p.m. on May 26.
Claimed to be first such demonstration in the country, the angioplasty will be done on a patient by N. Pratap Kumar, chief interventional cardiologist of the Meditrina Hospital here.
Dr. Pratap Kumar told presspersons that coronary angioplasty or percutaneous coronary intervention is one of the most effective and minimally invasive procedures to open blocked or narrow coronary arteries to restore easy blood flow to heart muscles.
He said that through the demonstration people would get to know how the blockage is flattened, artery widened and re-narrowing is prevented with balloon and stent. Elaborate arrangements have been made for the demonstration, which will take about two hours.