The National Cardiothoraic Centre (NCTC)of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital has successfully carried out a ground-breaking heart surgery without opening the chest of the patient.
The one-hour coronary stenting surgery on a 50-year old Nigerian could have taken five hours if the heart surgeons had used the normal open-heart procedure.
A coronary stenting surgery involves placing a tube in the coronary arteries which supply the heart with blood to keep the arteries open in the treatment of coronary heart disease; the most common type of heart disease that leads to heart attack.
A stent is a tiny, expandable mesh tube made of medical-grade stainless steel or cobalt alloy metal.
The three doctors led by the Director of NCC; Dr. Lawrence Agyemang Sereboe, performed the surgery on the Patient (Muhammed Diggol) who is from Kano State, Nigeria. He was earlier in the year diagnosed of severe heart pain which made it difficult for him to breathe propserly.
Other members of the surgery team were Dr. Abdul Samed Tanko, Head of the Cardiology, and Dr. Martin Adu Adade, a cardiologist.
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