Kauvery Hospital Tirunelveli Performs City's First Mechanical Thrombectomy
Feb 25, 2026
Tirunelveli (Tamil Nadu) [India], February 25: Kauvery Hospital, Tirunelveli, has successfully performed the city's first Mechanical Thrombectomy, an emergency procedure to remove a blood clot blocking a major artery in the brain. The intervention saved the life of a 61-year-old man, a known hypertensive and chronic smoker, who suffered a major stroke and was referred to the hospital after a clot-dissolving injection administered at a hospital in Nagercoil failed to improve his condition.
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