Alchemist cardiac surgeons using LIMA RIMA-Y technique for bypass surgery

Panchkula:  Coronary bypass surgery using LIMA-RIMA-Y Total Arterial Grafting remains the ultimate and most advanced technique of achieving long term freedom from coronary blockage & reblockage.  

Dr Shashi Jindal, Senior Consultant & Head of the Department of – Cardio Thoracic & Vascular Surgery (CTVS), in Alchemist Hospital said that bypass surgery is a technique of re-routing the blood to the heart muscle around the blockage. In a conventional technique of bypass surgery we use leg veins to reroute the blood .However the life of these venous conduits is not much and it does match with the life expectancy of young patients thereby requiring re do bypass after 8 to 10  years. So here is an advance technique which we are using to perform bypass called LIMA –RIMA – Y in which arterial grafts are used instead of venous grafts that will sustain for 18 to 20 years and virtually eliminate the need for 2^nd bypass any time in life. And also there is no need to cut open arms and legs in this technique.

This is a demanding operation requiring highest level of surgical skills and training . Only 4% surgeons in USA and 11% in U.K and very few in INDIA are trained to perform this procedure routinely. But this surgery is routinely performed in Alchemist Hospital by the team of skilled doctors without any extra cost. 

Cardiac ailments are on fast rise in India and rest of the world. There is a rapid change in the pattern of coronary artery disease all over the world. In the sense that disease is occurring much early in age and losing its gender  male preference.   So there is a needs for switching to treatment strategies that can offer long time disease free life.