First ever Percutaneous Trans-Axillary TAVI in India

Now, there is nothing to worry about patients who unfortunately have both legs' blocked arteries and require valve replacement without surgery, as the interventional cardiologists team in Rajasthan successfully performed Percutaneous Trans-Axillary (PTA) to replace a non-working heart valve of a patient through the 'Arm Artery' without surgery.

- Yash Goyal

Dr. Ravindra Singh Rao, renowned interventional cardiologist at Rajasthan Hospital in Jaipur, claimed, "In India, around 3-5 percent of patients suffering from aortic stenosis may have blocked femoral arteries, making the standard TAVI approach unfeasible."

For such patients, this alternative arm artery route can be life-saving.

The patient, a 78-year-old man (name changed to Hemendra), had severely blocked arteries in both legs due to calcium buildup, which made the conventional transcatheter valve implantation through the femoral artery impossible.