Woman without pulse in hand cured in CoA stenting

A 25-year-old woman born without pulse on her right hand is now leading a normal life thanks to a complex Coarctation of Aorta (CoA) stenting at a private hospital here.
She suffered headaches which gradually became more severe and unberable.
"Her heart was beating, her left hand had pulse but strangely not her right hand," Dr Anil Singhi, Senior Consultant, Interventional Paediatric Cardiologist, Medica Hospital said today.
It was found a few months ago that the right hand pulse was absent since the woman's birth because the right hand artery originated abnormally below the level of narrowing.
"Coarctation means significant narrowing of the main artery of the body. Aorta is the main artery of the body, which supplies oxygenated blood to our entire circulatory system," Medica Director Sunip Banerjee, who was one of the doctors to treat the woman, explained.

"The stenting of CoA is anyways a high-end intervention and in cases where the anatomy is complex like this woman, it is even more challenging," Singhi said.
Narrow arteries in infants constitute four per cent of disorders at borth but acute narrowing as in the case of the woman in very rare, the doctors said.
"I am happy to say that the treatment, the first in Medica Hospital, has been a huge success," Singhi added.