Sourav Ganguly hospitalised again with 'chest discomfort'
The former India captain will undergo a stenting procedure on Thursday
Sourav Ganguly had been treated for a heart attack earlier this month • Debajyoti Chakraborty/Getty Images
- Past history: He had pain [in the] chest on Jan 2, 2021. He came to Woodlands hospital then. Diagnosis was done as Triple vessel disease. He had three blocks in RCA [right coronary artery], LAD [left anterior descending artery], OM2 [second obtuse marginal].
- Stenting was done on RCA on Jan 2, 2021. Medical Board was done with many experts including Dr Devi Shetty.
- The advice was the rest two blocks were to be revasculalised/stenting to be done after 2-3 weeks.
- Today is 25th day post PTCA [percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, a procedure to open blocked coronary arteries and improve blood flow to the heart muscles].
- He had chest discomfort today and he is taken to Apollo today. Dr Saptarshi Basu and Dr Saroj Mondal are attending. Dr Aftab Khan will do the stenting tomorrow in presence of Dr Devi Shetty.