Rare heart procedure performed in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani doctors have successfully implanted an endovascular stent graft for the deadly anatomical time bomb called abdominal aortic aneurysm.

The procedure, a first of its kind in performed in the country, was conducted by a team of Pakistani doctors led by Vascular and Endovascular Surgeon Dr Syed Naseem Haider at the Quaid-e-Azam International Hospital Islamabad.



Talking to media after the procedure, Dr Haider said that the aortic aneurysm occurred due to the weakening in the wall of body’s largest blood vessels.

“If left untreated, the growing bubble is likely to burst without warning at any time, causing massive bleeding, followed by shock and almost certain death.

In April, the Aga Khan University hospital (AKUH) became the first medical centre to introduce the new advanced brain surgery technology, Neuro-Robotic Exoscope, in Pakistan and the only hospital outside North America to have advance neurosciences equipment.

The revolutionary technology was inaugurated at AKUH on April 11. The equipment, with its highly detailed 3D imaging and robotic positioning system, will transform the way surgeons operate on delicate areas of the brain and radically alter treatment options for patients during the surgery.

Neurosciences System Clinical Programme and Aurora Neurosciences Innovation Institute vice-president and Aurora St Luke’s Medical Centre, USA, neurosurgery chairperson, Dr Amin Kassam, shared his experience of performing the world’s first neurosurgery using this system in April last year.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 23^rd, 2016.