New Delhi: A team of doctors at a city hospital successfully treated a 75-year-old lady suffering from transient ischemic attacks (TIAs) or mini strokes, which restrict blood flow to the brain. Doctors said that risk of having a stroke can be reduced by timely treatment of TIAs.
The patient, Rukmani Garg, was suffering from TIAs or mini strokes, which demanded immediate medical intervention. In order to treat this, she was successfully operated by the senior consultant of neurology at Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, Dr P.N. Renjen, and his team.
Explaining about Ms Garg’s condition, Dr Renjen said: “When the patient visited the hospital, she had terrible pain in her shoulder and numbness in her left arm. There was slurring in her speech too. After examining her CT scan and other reports, we got to know that her right carotid artery was 80-90 per cent blocked, causing repeated minor strokes.” Doctors found out that the patient also had medical history of diabetes, hypertension, CAD-post PTCA (coronary angioplasty), and hypothyroidism. Only her right kidney was functional and she was undergoing treatment for the same.
In order to prevent her from having an actual stroke, doctors decided to operate and insert a stent in her artery immediately.
“Considering the patient’s medical history, we had to be extra careful while performing the procedure. If the surgery was not done carefully, there were chances that she might get a stroke on the operating table or restenosis in the artery. These are complications that a surgeon needs to be very careful of,” Dr Renjen added.
Explaining the cause of this condition, he said, “Transient ischemic attacks (TIAs), just like an ischemic stroke, takes place due to the narrowing of the carotid artery. Cholesterol gets deposited in the main artery and gets calcified. It keeps on growing affecting blood flow to the brain.”
