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About surgical relief to patients
Dr Kola said that due to fear of surgery and lack of awareness, patients tend to delay or avoid treatment for several diseases. “However, medical science has made advances and today diseases can be treated with minimal intervention.
The Public Garden Walkers’ Association (PGWA) 261st monthly health lecture was all about ‘Minimally Invasive Procedures: No cut – No Suture – No Scar’ on Sunday. In this regard, Dr Balaji Patel Kola, Consultant Interventional Radiologist, Apollo Hospitals, Jubilee Hills and Hydergudadelivered address at Public Gardens in which members of PGWA Ghulam Yazdani, Chairman; Pramod Kumar Kedia, Vice President; DrPurshottam Das, Gen. Secretary; Vishwanath Agarwal, Jt Secretary;SohanlalKadel, Jt Secretary; BLPershad Jaiswal, Treasurer; Prof Mohd Masood Ahmed, Health Care Advisor and patrons BSreekanth Reddy and G Ekember Reddy were present.
Dr Kola said that due to fear of surgery and lack of awareness, patients tend to delay or avoid treatment for several diseases. “However, medical science has made advances and today diseases can be treated with minimal intervention. Previously all surgical treatments were done through conventional open surgerywhere big incisions were made, which were big enough to allow the surgery to be undertaken. With tissues and structures exposed to the air, such incisions made can sometimes leave large wounds that are painful and take a long time to heal, with high chances of infection,” he said.
“Minimally invasive procedures are performed through tiny incisions instead of one large opening. Because the incisions are small, patients tend to recover faster with much lesser discomfort than with the conventional surgery, with no compromise on overall care,” he added. “These minimally invasive procedures can also be conveniently performed on a child or an elderly person, even on a surgically unfit patient with co-morbid conditions, while delivering equal or more efficacy than surgery,” informed the doctor.
Minimally invasive procedures were pioneered and developed by Interventional Radiologists who had first introduced angioplasty and the catheter-delivered stent. Several other minimally invasive procedures have followed, where images of all parts of the body can be obtained and used to direct interventional instruments by way of catheters (needles and fine tubes), so that many conditions once requiring open surgery can now be treated non-surgically.
