Khaberni - For the first time ever in the history of human medicine, doctors have performed a "coronary artery bypass" operation, which involves rerouting the blood flow without the need to open the patient's chest, similar to some current procedures of aortic valve replacement.
The "coronary artery bypass" operation redirects the blood flow around a blockage in the artery that carries it to the heart.
In this case, surgical tools were inserted and passed through a blood vessel in the patient’s leg, according to a report published in the journal Circulation Cardiovascular Interventions.
The researchers said that the results suggest that, in the future, there could be a widely available and less painful alternative to open heart surgery for those at risk of coronary artery blockage.
Team leader Christopher Bruce from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute said, "Achieving this required some out-of-the-box thinking, but I believe we have developed a very practical solution."
The patient was not suitable for traditional coronary artery bypass surgery through chest opening due to heart failure and old artificial heart valves that do not function well.
Six months after the procedure, the patient showed no signs of coronary artery blockade, indicating that the new method was successful.
It is necessary to conduct more tests on more patients before using the new technique more broadly, but its success in the first trial is a significant step in this direction.
Bruce said, "I was very pleased with the success of the project, from formulating the hypothesis to animal experimentation to clinical trials."
