Docs Perform 1st Angioplasty Sans Using Contrast Injection.

Peshawar -- Doctors at the Institute of Cardiology have succeeded in performing angioplasty of kidney patients without subjecting them to contrast injection.

A contrast injection poses the risk of kidney failure when it is used in angioplasty, angiography and bypass surgery of kidney patients.

A spokesman for the Peshawar Institute of Cardiology said that a stent was installed to a 83-year-old female kidney patient without administering her contrast injection for the first time at the...

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