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Offering the best available diagnostic and therapeutic modalities, the Department of Adult Cardiology operates through interventional and non-interventional arms that together encompass the entire realm of adult cardiological practice.

Interventional Cardiology is offered through the use of two state-of-the-art cineless catheterization laboratories, the first of its kind in the country. These utilize digital technology to store and retrieve data in compact discs and perform approximately 4000 procedures annually. Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty (PTCA) with placement of intracoronary stents is a routine procedure. It was in this unit in June 1993, that the first bail out stent placement was performed in India following a PTCA. In keeping with cutting-edge technology, the placements of drug eluting stents are also routine practice, as is the latest in atherectomy.

Balloon Valvuloplasty is another area this department is well known for, in the treatment of mitral, aortic and pulmonary stenosis. Balloon angioplasties make up a sizeable practice in this laboratory especially for peripheral vascular disease, coarctation of the aorta and peripheral pulmonary artery stenosis. Deployment of coils to interrupt arterio-venous malformations and other abnormal vascular anomalies are also within the realm of the interventional cardiologist.

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