Advanced cardiac facility launched at NEIGRIHMS

Shillong: A sophisticated and advanced interventional cardiac facility was inaugurated in the department of cardiology at the North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences (NEIGRIHMS) here on Thursday. “With the installation and commissioning of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory (cath lab) with additional sophisticated features, patients with heart conditions visiting NEIGRIHMS will get the highest standard of care with enhanced accuracy and precision for their heart ailments,” a NEIGRIHMS statement said. “The new cath lab is equipped with intra-cardiac echocardiography and 3D Electrophysiological Mapping for enhanced delineation of structural and functional integrity of the heart. These devices, coupled with Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) — an emerging technology for performing high-resolution cross-sectional imaging, Fractional Flow Reserve (FFR) — a guide wire-based procedure to accurately measure blood pressure and flow through isolated segments of coronary arteries and Intra-vascular Ultrasonography (IVUS) used for characterization of lesion morphology, quantify plaque burden, guide stent sizing, assess stent expansion, and identify procedural complications and Rotablation, a therapy performed with a small rotating cutting blade used to open a blocked artery and revamp the flow of blood to or from the heart would enable the cardiologists to address all kinds of cardiac ailments,” the statement added. “The patients will benefit from the availability of every possible advance treatment for cardiac diseases and their complications,” the statement said.Director of NEIGRIHMS Dr Nalin Mehta stated that it was a team effort and congratulated the entire NEIGRIHMS family for their contribution towards this successful venture. He commended the department of cardiology for their yeoman service to not only the patients of the northeast but also neighbouring countries.