Hyderabad: The cardiology department at Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) has achieved a milestone by successfully performing a Pulmonary Artery Denervation procedure, which is a first for Telangana and Andhra Pradesh and sixth of its kind in India.

The procedure, which is a minimally invasive and involves destroying the sympathetic nerves on the pulmonary artery to treat pulmonary hypertension (PH), was performed on a 30-year-old female pathologist from Chennai who had been suffering from Eisenmenger’s syndrome.

The procedure was led by Prof Dr N Rama Kumari and included Dr Noosha Doddi, Dr Umadevi Karuru, Dr Ajeya Kashyap, Dr Mounika Mellamputti, Dr P Vinay Kumar, Dr K Bharat Reddy, Dr Naresh Naidu and Dr P Chandrakant.

According to a press release by the Telangana IPR d

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