Surgery in Chandigarh hospital telecast live to Paris

A team of cardiologists at a private hospital in this union territory Thursday conducted a surgery, which was telecast live to the Indo-European Course on Revascularization (IECR) at Paris.

Doctors at Mukat Hospital performed the surgery that was broadcast live during the third edition of IECR, going on at Georges Pompidou Hospital in Paris.

"Mukat is the only hospital in this region that was selected for live telecast of this surgery during the international cardiac meeting," Ravi Inder Singla, medical director of the hospital, told reporters Thursday.

"It is a great honour for us. The participants of the conference not only saw the intricacies of surgery but also interacted and discussed various points with our doctors during the operation," he said.

The surgery was performed on a 59-year-old patient suffering from severe angina while walking or exercising.

"The patient had undergone bypass surgery in 1997. It was found that out of three bypass grafts he had received, one was totally closed while other two had more than 95 percent blockages. We decided to open up blockages in these grafts so as to restore blood flow to heart," said Sudheer Saxena, who led the team of doctors.

"The surgery was quite successful and we are hoping for a quick recovery of the patient," said Saxena, who had till date performed more than 10,000 diagnostic and over 5,000 coronary angioplasty procedures.

Ranjan Mathai, Indi's ambassador to France, inaugurated the IECR conference in Paris that was aimed to discuss and analyse the latest developments in the field of interventional cardiology.

"Besides the top cardiologists from India and Europe, over 1,000 cardiologists from the US, South America, Australia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh participated in this conference," said the spokesperson of Mukat Hospital.

Last updated on Nov 5^th, 2009 at 19:41 pm IST--IANS