Apollo Hospitals on Tuesday announced that it became the first centre in India to perform Minimally Invasive Hybrid Revascularisation  (MIHR) surgery to treat a triple vessel coronary artery block and improve blood flow to the heart.

The cutting-edge procedure gave a new lease of life to a 57-year-old man from Chennai city. MIHR was a procedure that combines minimally invasive Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG) surgery and angiography stenting procedure to restore blood flow to the heart when there was a build-up of plaque in the blood vessels.

Dr M M Yusuf, Minimally Invasive Cardiac surgeon, Apollo Hospitals, told the media here that the patient Zahir Hussain,a businessman, was brought to the hospital with a heart attack that blocked triple vessel Coronary artery. Patients with triple vessel blockage were mostly treated with a conventional bypass surgery (by splitting the central chest bone), which was an intense procedure that needs a longer recovery time post-surgery.