Sharjah hospital introduces new angioplasty procedure

Al Qasimi Hospital in Sharjah has announced it is now offering a new type of angioplasty for patients with rare and high-risk coronary heart disease, Khaleej Times has reported. The new procedure called Controlled Antegrade and Retrograde Subintimal Tracking (CART), a combination of both antegrade and retrograde techniques are used to get the optimum result in the angioplasty. The procedure is seen as "high-risk procedure, but has the benefits of causing less bleeding, low risk for stroke and infection than a surgery."