Ganguly stable after second angioplasty

Indian cricket board chief Sourav Ganguly underwent a second angioplasty on Thursday when two more stents were implanted to clear his clogged coronary arteries, an official at the private hospital where he is admitted said. The 48-year-old cricket icon is stable. “Sourav Ganguly has undergone successful angioplasty and two stents have been implanted in his two cardiac arteries,” Saroj Mondal, one of the doctors treating Ganguly, said at the Kolkata hospital. “He is fine and good. He will be kept under observation for a few days,” the doctor added. The former India skipper had suffered a mild heart attack in January and was diagnosed with Triple Vessel Disease. Earlier in the month, he underwent an angioplasty procedure during which a stent was inserted into one of the blocked arteries.

KOLKATA: Sourav Ganguly, the president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and a former India captain, underwent angioplasty again on Thursday. Ganguly, 48, is stable and under observation, according to a media release from Apollo Gleneagles Hospital where he is being treated.

“Dr Aftab Khan and the team comprising Dr Ashwin Mehta, Dr Devi Shetty, Dr Ajit Desai, Dr Saroj Mondal and Dr Saptarshi Basu successfully performed angioplasty on Mr Sourav Ganguly… on January 28 and two stents were placed. The procedure was uneventful. Mr Ganguly is stable and under close observation,” said the release.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee visited Ganguly after the angioplasty. “I spoke to him and his family. He is doing fine and I can only wish him a speedy recovery,” she said after thanking the team of doctors tending to Ganguly.

Ganguly was admitted to the hospital on Wednesday after complaining of feeling unwell at home where he was recovering on being discharged from Woodlands Hospital on Jan 7. He had been admitted to the hospital on January 2 after complaining of “chest discomfort, heaviness of the head and a spell of dizziness while performing physical exercises in the home gymnasium,” according to a release from Woodlands then. Ganguly had a stent inserted in the right coronary artery on Jan 2.