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Ohio Docs Heal a Broken Heart through the Wrist

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Tuesday, October 19, 2010   

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Some Ohio doctors are healing damaged hearts through their patients' wrists. The Ohio State University Medical Center is among the first in the country to use a new approach to coronary stent placing, a method to treat blocked arteries and an alternative to open heart surgery.

Interventional cardiologist Dr. Quinn Capers of the OSU Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital says they are using a puncture site at a patient's wrist, rather than the upper leg to guide the stent into place, which reduces to the risk of bleeding and other complications. And he adds that it has become an outpatient procedure.

"In terms of taking the next logical step, since it's so safe, we can now think about sending patients home the same day, and so far we've sent one patient home the same day. And he had a ball. He was at home, watering his garden, several hours after having his heart fixed."

Most coronary stenting procedures are performed through a punctured artery in the upper thigh, with patients spending the night in the hospital.

While cost reduction could be a major benefit of the new procedure, Dr. Capers says, improving patient outcomes is equally important.

"We know that, psychologically, patients heal better when they are in a comfortable surrounding. And so if you are home with your loved ones, ten there's nothing more comfortable than that. So we know that the patients will do better eventually."

Dr. Capers says coronary stenting through the wrist has the potential to establish a new standard for treatment of heart disease.

"It was a big paradigm shift to start doing balloon and stent procedures, because we would really be able to fix the heart in a patient that is awake and can talk to us. And now we can fix the heart blockage and that patient can be home in their living room within a couple of hours."

Dr. Capers says only five percent of patients in the U.S. have had the procedure performed through a punctured artery in the wrist, but doctors in many countries in Europe are performing the procedure safely on an outpatient basis.



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