Hospital performs its first endovascular intervention
Doctors at the Ho Chi Minh City-based Trung Vuong Hospital have successfully performed their first endovascular intervention on a patient with renal infarct, a rare condition with nonspecific symptoms.
A doctor examines a patient at Trung Vuong Hospital (Photo: VNA)
HCM City (VNA) - Doctorsat the Ho Chi Minh City-based Trung Vuong Hospital have successfully performedtheir first endovascular intervention on a patient with renal infarct, a rarecondition with nonspecific symptoms.
The procedure was done last month on a 51-year-old man from HCMCity’s District 8 who, after experiencing acute abdominal pain for two days,bought medicine at a pharmacy to reduce the pain. After the pain became worse,the man was admitted to the hospital for emergency aid.
A CAT scan at the hospital showed that blood clots were blockingthe patient’s blood supply to his left kidney, said Ngo Minh Tuan, head of thehospital’s digital subtraction angiography department.
The infarction had lasted 36 hours, which can lead to necrosis of20 percent of kidney tissue.
Endovascular intervention, a minimally invasive procedure, wasused by doctors to remove the blood clot.
They used a 2-mm tube threaded into an artery in a thigh and arenal artery to remove the blood clot, and placed a balloon device inside theartery to help blood flow easily to the kidney.
This was the first time the hospital had used endovascularintervention to treat renal infarct, Tuan said.
Patients with renal infarct previously had been treated withantithrombotic medicines or medicine that breaks down blood clots.
"But such medicine cannot completely remove clots, leaving ahigh risk of kidney tissue necrosis," Tuan said.
If the condition is not treated in a timely fashion, kidney tissuecould die from kidney failure. The kidney would no longer be able to filterwater and toxins from blood.
The condition’s symptoms are often only abdominal pain, which canbe mistaken for a stomachache.-VNA
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A doctor examines a patient at Trung Vuong Hospital (Photo: VNA) 
