Cardiologists at the Aga Khan University Hospital have broken new ground in heart procedures by using a diamond drill to unblock a heart artery which was too hard to open with a balloon treatment alone.
An elderly patient from Uganda became the first patient to undergo this procedure in the region when it was performed and remains in a good state of health after he received this treatment, the hospital says.
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