Doctors at Rela Hospital in Chennai have successfully performed a mechanical thrombectomy, a catheterization procedure used to physically extract a blood clot from a pulmonary artery.
According to the press release, the procedure was performed on a 42-year-old patient who suffered an injury to his left leg and subsequently developed deep vein thrombosis (DVT), a condition in which a blood clot forms in the deep veins of the leg.
The clot eventually blocked blood flow to the heart. The patient suffered multiple cardiac arrests. The emergency department of the hospital diagnosed a pulmonary embolism and the thrombectomy was performed by Shabnam Fathima A., consultant in vascular surgery, with the assistance of a multidisciplinary team of specialists.
Published – 05 Dec 2025 0:42 IST
