Wockhardt Hospitals Nagpur is a leading healthcare provider with a tradition of care and innovation that makes this hospital a boon for patients in Central India. Wockhardt Hospitals Nagpur, which handles critical patients, successfully performed a procedure in a 70 years old patient. Dr Amit Bhatti, who is an interventional neurologist and stroke specialist at Wockhardt Hospitals Nagpur, recently did intracranial stenting in a 70 years old patient who had severe stenosis (blockage) in the artery of the brain in an acute setting thus saving his brain cells from certain death due to ischemia.
Dr Amit Bhatti also highlighted that, the biggest threat to brain cells aka neurons comes from stroke. Stroke, which is likely to affect 1 in 4 people worldwide, is the first leading cause of disability and one of most common causes of death.
Post procedure patient had a very good recovery from a complete right sided weakness (hemiplegia) and severe aphasia which is inability to understand or communicate in any language. Angioplasty is a procedure which uses ultra fine micro wires to reach the desired location in the arterial network under Xray guidance. These wires are passed through small hollow tubes which are called catheters which are passed through a small needle sized hole in the femoral artery of the groin.
Over these wires, balloons and then stents are passed to dilate the blood vessels and then keep them open respectively. As the procedure is done entirely through a small needle sized puncture, it completely avoids any incision or cutting open of the skull thus greatly reducing the morbidity and leading to speedy recovery and patient acceptance. These procedures are done in specialized hospitals equipped with cath lab.
Dr.Amit Bhatti,Interventional Neurologist and Stroke Specialist at Wockhardt Hospitals Nagpur,further emphasized the fact that identifying patients with acute stroke is the most important step in the accurate management because the most common cause of mismanagement is misdiagnosis or late diagnosis because the benefits of any revascularization procedure is time bound and useful only if done urgently ideally within first 24 hours.