In a breakthrough
for treating abnormal narrowing of branching arteries, scientists have
developed a new stenting technique called ‘Nano Crush' that offers an easy,
longterm treatment for the condition.
The technique, developed by a team of doctors at Fortis
Hospital, Anandapur in Kolkata was presented at the European Bifurcation Club
meeting held in the Netherlands recently.
The treatment of stenosis or abnormal narrowing at the branching
points of arteries is a major challenge for interventional cardiologists.
Traditional stents placed at such points often compromise one of
the branches. Existing treatments for stenosis involve more metal and are
difficult to execute.
The Nano Crush technique is an easy and effective method of
stenting the branching arteries as it does not affect blood flow in any of the
branches and offers a long term solution, according to the researchers led by
Dr Shuvanan Ray, Chief of Cardiology at Fortis Kolkata.
“The classical stenting technique is time consuming, difficult,
technically demanding and at times leads to incomplete revascularisation,” said
Ray. “This triggered the thought of developing a new and effective technique
with lesser adverse events,” he said.
“We have patients with more than four years follow up and we are
confident of the effectiveness of the technique,” researchers said.
“Going by the impressive outcome, the Nano Crush method may be
applied widely among patients with stenosis at branching points of arteries,”
said Ray, who led the team comprising of Dr Prithwiraj Bhattacharya, Dr Priyam
Mukherjee and Dr Siddhartha Bandhopadhya.
“This technique ensures minimal metal load with immediate and
long term results. It is an improvement over two stent technique of bifurcation
which is difficult and cannot be performed in all patients,” he said.
Source: DNA-10th-December-2016
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