New surgery procedure is a world first for Galway

Patient was well-known local journalist

A LANDMARK operation, the first of its type worldwide, spearheaded by Professor Sharif Sultan, a renowned master of vascular and endovascular surgery at the Galway Clinic has revolutionised the management of renal artery interventions and aneurysms.

A renal artery aneurysm is a bulge or weakened area in the wall of a main artery to the kidney and if it bursts, can be fatal.

But a ground-breaking new medical procedure performed recently at the Galway Clinic/Blackrock Health Group now pioneers Advanced Renal Aneurysm Surgery with C Guard Flow Modulator.

The first patient to benefit from this procedure was veteran local journalist and broadcaster Tom Gilmore (72) from Bodane, Tuam, who had been suffering from severe abdominal pain and intermittent incapacitating renal pain. If a renal artery aneurysm of over three cm ruptures, it can be fatal.

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