The 1 minute 42 second-long video, which is been lifted from a website, has been explained as a new technique being introduced in one of the public tertiary care hospitals in Mumbai.
Social media has its own perils and city cardiologists are facing it with anxious patients calling them on a video, that's being circulated in WhatsApp, claiming itself to be a non-stenting alternative in angioplasty. Doctors say, they have been receiving the videos from their patients, relatives and friends inquiring about the authenticity of it. Dr Haresh Mehta, cardiologist at Hinduja healthcare in Khar, said, "In last 2-3 days, I have received at least 100 queries on this video. It is not at all a new procedure as it claims and we do it regularly in case of acute heart attack where we do thrombosis extractions."
The 1 minute 42 second-long video, which is been lifted from a website, has been explained as a new technique being introduced in one of the public tertiary care hospitals in Mumbai. "It is getting widely circulated. It is one more anti-thrombotic device which is not an alternative to stenting. Many such came and went in the market. At the most, it is an adjunctive device for angioplasty and stenting. Not yet proven for its efficacy. Many such devices failed to show any mortality benefit. In layman's language it is a clot removal device to be used before stenting hence not an alternative," said Dr Ganesh Kumar, cardiologist from Dr LH Hiranandani hospital.
About a lakh people a year in India have a metal stent — a tubular scaffold — inserted in their diseased arteries to remove the blocks. Dr Sudhir Pillai, cardiologist at PD Hinduja hospital in Mahim, said this procedure is an extractor that works on suction principle. "It is like a vacuum cleaner. It can not remove blocks in the artery. We have to keep on explaining this to every caller who wants to know about the authenticity of the video. People get anxious and want to know about non-invasive and new promising techniques. Circulating such videos is an irresponsible behaviour," said Dr Pillai.
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