Doctors treating former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif have recommended that he has a backup pacemaker and an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator fitted. In a series of tweets on Wednesday, his daughter Maryam Nawaz outlined a number of measures being sought by doctors to curb Nawaz’s ailing health. She told her followers: “Doctors have recommended Backup Pacemaker & […]
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Rawalpindi Institute of Cardiology first to use MitraClip in heart treatment
RAWALPINDI: Rawalpindi Institute of Cardiology (RIC) has become the first hospital in South Asia to use the MitraClip procedure for heart treatment. The MitraClip (Abbott Vascular) technique is the world’s first therapy to treat mitral regurgitation (leakage of blood backward through the mitral valve). It targets patients who can not undergo an open-heart surgery, usually older patients for whom […]