It is a matter of great pride for all of India that a procedure performed in Punjab has been recognized as a World First by the medical fraternity. Dr. Harinder Singh Bedi – Director of Cardio Vascular & Endovascular Sciences at the Ivy Hospital in Mohali – told that the procedure was a minimally invasive one in a very high-risk patient . Explaining further he said that the patient – Mr. Sukhbir Singh (name changed) was a 55-year-old who had a massive aneurysm (ie ballooning out) of his artery behind the knee – called the popliteal artery. This had ruptured with loss of over 2-liter blood in the thigh.
The patient experienced unbearable pain and came to Dr. Bedi. On examination and investigation, it was realized that the patient was very anemic due to the loss of blood. Also, the aneurysm could burst again with risk to life and limb. Dr. Bedi has seen very few such cases in Sydney where…
