New Heart Procedure Goes Through the Wrist

" Kelly is here because he felt chest pain when he ran it turns out one of his arteries delivering blood to his heart he's 90% blocked. Most doctors would go winter he's going to perform the procedure to reopen his artery. But doctors it UC San Francisco medical center -- do something different. They're going and through his wrist it's done with smallest usual cat that is the QB today it was less than two millimeters in diameter. The big benefits of going in through the rest is that patients experience much less bleeding and the traditional approach where doctors going through the growing. Patients having the risk procedure also have fewer infections but it's not for everyone patients with several blocked arteries are not good candidates so we're in that -- right now we're just gonna put the balloon -- an -- that blockage. After intervention -- cardiologist doctor Andrew Boyle inserts a wire mesh inside the narrowing artery he inflates a tiny balloon to hold the vessel open it only takes about twenty minutes before blood is one and flowing freely to -- heart it's."

" Pretty amazing when you think about it as compared to the old way that when they actually had to do. You know procedure -- cracking it just so our services. The same results that but he's here."

" Especially since day is considered an outpatient and major benefits to them -- they can get up immediately that I have to lie flat for several hours. And they can eat immediately which everyone likes. And and more patients will be suitable to go home in the same day the procedure."

" Beat Dan only had local anesthesia he walks out of the OR and will be heading home in just a few hours convinced it won't be long before he can enjoy a pain free job on the beach. In separate Cisco Merriam Paltrow and NBC Bay Area news."