In a First in Chennai, 95-Year-Old Man who suffered acute heart attack, undergoes angioplasty along with implantation of Leadless Pacemaker at Fortis Malar by Dr. Sanjiv Agarwal and his Team

This was the first case in Chennai, wherein Dr. Sanjiv Agarwal implanted the leadless pacemaker after the patient developed complications post heart attack

Chennai, May, 31, 2022: A 95-year-old man who suffered an acute heart-attack, successfully underwent angioplasty and stenting followed by the implantation of a leadless pacemaker at Fortis Malar Hospital. The patient was presented at Fortis Malar with chest discomfort, hypertension, shortness of breath and left-shoulder pain for several hours. The patient’s heart rate and blood pressure had variations during evaluation in the emergency room.

Expert team of doctors headed by Dr. Sanjiv Agarwal, Director & Senior Consultant, Interventional Cardiologist at Fortis Malar identified that, “The patient had ST elevation (in ECG) in the anterior leads and his echocardiogram showed dysfunction of the left ventricle due to heart attack and there was corroborating evidence from the blood test