Pinhole surgery in Chennai

Through a puncture the size of a pinhole, and a catheter as thin as a hair, the pinhole surgeon with infinite care travels through the arteries to the affected area and delivers treatment directly to the site. i.e., with the aid of imaging techniques, interventional radiologists channel small tubes (catheters), as thick as a strand of hair, through arteries or veins from a pinhole puncture on the skin. These tubes can take stents and balloons to cure heart defects, close abnormal channels and dilate blood vessels and valves.

There is no cutting, no bleeding and also no need for anaesthesia. (General anaesthesia was needed only for brain interventions.) Pinhole surgeries improve outcomes, shorten recovery, reduce complications and open up new methods of diagnosis and treatment. The period of hospitalisation and the rate of infection would be reduced. There would be practically no scar.

The Advantages of Keyhole Surgery are:

1. It causes least damage to the blood vessels, nerves, muscles, tendons etc.

2. There is less bleeding and we can do away with the blood transfusion and the complications of blood transfusion.

3. It does not expose the vital organs to external environment and thereby reduces the rate of infection.

4. Only a few days of hospitalisation is required. The patient can return home in the shortest possible time.

5.Practically no scar.

Multi-speciality MIOT Hospitals was the first to introduce keyhole surgeries. The hospital in the past one year since it first used the technique had been able to create a group of pinhole surgeons, who carry out the treatment by making small punctures in the skin to access the blood vessels. At present, the hospital was undertaking 10-15 pinhole surgeries a day.