Dr. Rakesh Yadav, Sub-Dean & Additional Professor, Cardiology, AIIMS, New Delhi, will discuss choosing the stent and the precautions are taken while choosing it. He says that there should be three criteria while choosing the stent. First is the patients characteristics, lesions characteristics and third is the cost-effectiveness. He will further discuss in which group of patients the stent is to be chosen. It is also decided whether the patient is symptomatic or not. He will also talk about bare metal stents and drug-eluting stents. He will also talk about different types of stents and their limitations.
President Heart Care Foundation of India and Group Editor in Chief MEDtalks
Recipient of Padma Shri, Vishwa Hindi Samman, National Science Communication Award and Dr B C Roy National Award, Dr Aggarwal is a physician, cardiologist, spiritual writer and motivational speaker. He was the Past President of the Indian Medical Association and President of Heart Care Foundation of India. He was also the Editor in Chief of the IJCP Group, Medtalks and eMediNexus
Professor at AIIMS Department of Cardiology
Dr. Rakesh Yadav is a Professor at AIIMS dept of cardiology and Organising Secretary of National Interventional Council at New Delhi 2017
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