Date:31/08/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/08/31/stories/2008083155110800.htm

Andhra Pradesh

Non-cardiac angioplasty comes of age

Staff Reporter

Kakinada: Apollo Hospital here has taken rapid strides in performing non-cardiac angioplasty procedures which are a done to repair damaged blood vessels.

Renal angioplasty was done recently on eight patients who had blockages in the arteries that carry blood to and from kidneys. The `renal artery blockages’ caused very high blood pressure and could have rendered the kidneys completely dysfunctional. Similarly, ‘peripheral angioplasty’ was performed on a patient who had blockages in the leg blood channels.