Bengaluru: When 68-year-old Pradeep Kenneth Daniels from Kodagu felt a familiar, tight pain in his chest in Aug, he feared the worst. A decade earlier, the retired project financial controller had survived a heart attack and received four stents. This time, though initial tests like ECG and echocardiogram appeared normal, a coronary angiogram revealed a 95% blockage in one of his stented arteries — a potentially life-threatening situation. But instead of undergoing the conventional balloon angioplasty, Pradeep was advised a more advanced procedure: laser angioplasty. Within hours, a laser-equipped catheter vaporised the plaque blocking his artery. A supporting stent was then placed to ensure long-term relief. He was discharged the very next day. "I could feel the difference almost im

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