Doctors at Desun Hospital, Calcutta, saved a critical patient by performing an angiography on him on May 12, the hospital said in a statement..

Sixty-two-year-old Amal Kumar Ghosh, who has a history of hypertension and diabetes, had come to the hospital in the wee hours of May 3 with chest pain, palpitation and breathlessness.

On admission he had uncontrolled blood sugar, low oxygen saturation and features of heart failure. On Echocardiography the EF (Pumping Capacity of Heart) was only 20% with Non-ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction in ECG.

“After three days of optimisation (BiPAP support) and management of this critical condition (Acute Coronary Syndrome ACS) he was prepared for Coronary angiography. It was found he had Left main with Severe triple vessel coronary artery disease” the hospital said.

After observation, the doctors decided to perform coronary artery bypass surgery onMay 12. “It was an extremely risky case with so many comorbid diseases and extremely bad cardiac function. Uncontrolled diabetes mellitus, Hypertension, Lower respiratory tract infections were other risk factors,” the statement from the hospital read.

“Following surgery, the patient started behaving well. His cardiac function improved. The patient came out of ventilation the next day (May 13) early in the morning. No features of low Cardiac output were there. Gradually in the coming three days all cardiac support was taken off and the patient was mobilised. Diabetes and hypertension were strictly controlled,” the hospital said.

Ghosh was discharged on May 18 with improved cardiac function.