Asia Med Care has collaborated with several hospitals in India for the best possible cardiac treatment with a team of highly trained and experienced cardiologists and Cardio-thoracic surgeons to ensure world class treatment, providing a rejuvenating and healing experience improving the lives of cardiac patients.

Coronary Angioplasty
Coronary angioplasty is accomplished using a balloon-tipped catheter inserted through an artery in the groin or arm to enlarge a narrowing in a coronary artery. Angioplasty is successful in opening coronary arteries in well over 90% of patients. Up to 30% to 40% of patients with successful coronary angioplasty will develop recurrent narrowing at the site of balloon inflation. The use of newer devices such as intracoronary stents and atherectomy, as well as newer pharmacologic agents has resulted in higher success rates, reduced complications, and reduced recurrence after percutaneous coronary intervention. Angioplasty physically opens the channel of diseased arterial segments (see below), relieves the recurrence of chest pain, increases the quality of life and reduces other complications of the disease.

The Surgery
Coronary angioplasty of the coronary artery, or percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA), is a non-surgical procedure that relieves narrowing and obstruction of the arteries to the muscle of the heart (coronary arteries). This allows more blood and oxygen to be delivered to the heart muscle. PTCA is now referred to as percutaneous coronary intervention, or PCI, as this term includes the use of balloons, stents, and atherectomy devices. Percutaneous coronary intervention is accomplished with a small balloon catheter inserted into an artery in the groin or arm, and advanced to the narrowing in the coronary artery. The balloon is then inflated to enlarge the narrowing in the artery. When successful, percutaneous coronary intervention can relieve chest pain of angina, improve the prognosis of individuals with unstable angina, and minimize or stop a heart attack without having the patient undergo open heart coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery.

• Allergic reaction to the x-ray dye
• Bleeding in area where the catheter was inserted
• Blockage of blood flow to an area of the heart (very rare).
• Reduce the risk of death in some patients
• Damage to a heart valve or blood vessel
• Bleeding
• Infection

• Reaction to contrast dye
• Kidney problems
• Damage to the lining of the artery (called dissection)
• Reduce the risk of death in some patients
• Blockages developing in arteries downstream from the treated artery from particles of the plaque breaking free (called embolization).