@drsermedmezher: POV: You Had Heart Surgery Through Your Leg. Sources- PMID 26864948 radium_ingester on TT Endovascular heart procedures have fundamentally transformed cardiovascular medicine by allowing doctors to repair complex heart issues from the inside out, entirely bypassing the need to crack open the patient's chest. Instead of relying on a highly invasive open-heart surgery, cardiologists access the heart by making a tiny puncture, usually in the wrist or groin, and threading a long, flexible tube called a catheter through the body's natural highway of blood vessels. Guided by real-time X-ray imaging and miniature cameras, surgeons can navigate these catheters all the way into the beating heart, using them as microscopic delivery systems for a variety of specialized tools, balloons, and life-saving implants. Through these narrow tubes, doctors can now perform intricate mechanical repairs that once required stopping the heart and putting the patient on a bypass machine. They can deploy tiny wire mesh stents to permanently prop open blocked arteries, meticulously burn away malfunctioning tissue that causes dangerous arrhythmias, or even deliver entirely new, tightly folded artificial valves that spring open to crush an old, failing valve out of the way. Because there is no massive surgical wound to heal and the heart is never stopped, this approach slashes recovery times from several agonizing months to just a few days, offering a safe lifeline to frail or elderly patients who simply could not survive the severe trauma of traditional cardiac surgery. #health #heart #surgery

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