Dr. Benny's Heartsmart

Dr. Benny's Heartsmart Aware of your heart! Be heart smart! living angioplasty

Heart diseases especially Coronary Artery Disease is rising globally and is the number one cause of death worldwide. This page is created to increase the awareness of this disease, ways and lifestyle changes that can prevent this disease and various treatment options for this disease.

World Heart Day 2025
30/09/2025

World Heart Day 2025

Another very productive interactive session reaching out to public: a lifetalk seriesHEARTALKAn informative session desi...
26/09/2025

Another very productive interactive session reaching out to public: a lifetalk series
HEARTALK
An informative session designed to tackle the most pressing fitness & heart health concerns, along with guidance on initial life saving care today, 2025 Friday, 4.30 pm to 6.30 pm

An Initiative by Acers & Pacers Running Group, Oman.
More than 100 participants attended with a lively interactive session.

26/09/2025

Happy to serve the community as part of world heart day 2025 activities .
“Don’t Miss a beat” .

Reached out to Filipino community in Oman at Embassy of Philippines, Oman



“It is wonderful that all the leaders in cardiovascular health, from patient organizations to societies and foundations across the globe, come together to network, learn and collaborate on improving cardiovascular health for all.”

-American Heart Association

Disease involving left main coronary bifurcation is a tricky place to treat with stents especially there is calcium depo...
21/09/2025

Disease involving left main coronary bifurcation is a tricky place to treat with stents especially there is calcium deposit and further disease down the artery. But with right techniques it’s still possible to tackle this situation as in this case of a 58 year old gentleman today.

Young relatively healthy individuals suddenly collapse and succumb. It’s shocking. How it happens? How can we identify a...
20/09/2025

Young relatively healthy individuals suddenly collapse and succumb. It’s shocking. How it happens? How can we identify and prevent these unfortunate incidents?

How long you can try to control mildly elevated blood pressure without medication ?Recommendation from the most recent g...
25/08/2025

How long you can try to control mildly elevated blood pressure without medication ?

Recommendation from the most recent guidelines of American College of Cardiology.

27/06/2025

A hard nut to crack 😀 A critical calcific tight narrowing of the Right Coronary Artery. See the comment to watch the end result with serial balloon dilations and final stenting 😊

Today morning we had a patient with acute anterior wall ST elevation Myocardial Infarction (Major Heart Attack) landed i...
14/06/2025

Today morning we had a patient with acute anterior wall ST elevation Myocardial Infarction (Major Heart Attack) landed in our emergency with no financial capacity or responsible bystanders. They did not even have money to do the registration.

Dr.Sambath and Emergency Department staff did a wonderful job in stabilising him.
Dr. Prabhakaran did the initial work up, coordinated with multiple phone calls to patient’s friends and family and mobilising them.

This gentleman had sustained a massive MI involving the proximal Left Anterior Descending artery as indicated by his ECG.
He is already in the verge of crashing, going for frank pulmonary oedema and cardiogenic shock if proper revascularisation is not done urgently.
No money, no responsibile bystanders and no time to waste. It’s an “ ethical dilemma “ !

Our Branch head Mr. Rajesh gave us the moral support and there’s no other option but to proceed.
We shifted him to Cathlab in record time and primary angioplasty was performed, opening up a totally occluded LAD. Patient is well and stable now.

My heartfelt gratitude to our directors and management for their unwavering support which gives us the confidence to provide life saving care in an emergency even in these difficult situations🙏🏻

I thank all colleagues and staff involved and end othe day a life saved make everything worthwhile 🙏🏻

Thank you colleagues for your participation in yesterday’s CME programme at Grand Millennium Hotel, Muscat. It was great...
30/05/2025

Thank you colleagues for your participation in yesterday’s CME programme at Grand Millennium Hotel, Muscat. It was great sharing and discussing the latest in cardiac ultrasound yesterday evening❤️

Thanks to Viatris and Badr Al Samaa Royal Hospital for supporting this event

Today we had a 29 year old young man for coronary angiogram. He had chest discomfort two weeks ago and was treated elsew...
29/05/2025

Today we had a 29 year old young man for coronary angiogram. He had chest discomfort two weeks ago and was treated elsewhere and referred to us. Apart from mild chest discomfort that day he was remarkably asymptomatic. He has no identified risk factors- no family history, not a diabetic, no high blood pressure , cholesterol is not that high, non smoker. I was expecting normal coronaries or mild disease. But what we saw in the angiogram was shocking! 100% occluded LAD, one of the main branches of Left Coronary artery and 60% narrow Right Coronary artery!
He inderwent a successful procedure with excellent results but why he developed it at this age?
Being South Asian descent is a risk factor.

25/05/2025

Life is a precious gift and we often take it for granted until a moment comes when we fear of losing it.

This gentleman who leads a hectic lifestyle managing a company was fine that evening, two weeks ago till he felt something like an indigestion. It was not getting better so he drove to the hospital with his wife. My first on call Dr. Binoy saw him in the emergency with ECG changes of an acute heart attack. He was immediately shifted to the CCU with plans to start early treatment so that damage to the heart is minimal.

But then he arrested. During a heart attack when the heart muscle ceases to get blood supply sometimes it doesn't know what to do. The electrical activity that keeps our heart beat goes haywire and the heart stops beating but just quivers. This is called ventricular fibrillation and often occurs during the early phase of a heart attack and cause death before people reach hospital. Only thing to save life here is early CPR and defibrillation.

Defibrillator is a device that is capable of giving high energy shocks that can jumpstart the heart again to beat properly. As this gentleman arrested inside the hospital he received immediate Defibrillation which restored his heart beat but only temporarily. He arrested recurrently and had to be shocked eight times. His blood pressure started dropping and he started having early pulmonary oedema.

Pulmonary oedema is a condition where fluid seeps into the lung and makes breathing difficult and causes oxygen in the blood to drop. This often happens when the heart starts failing to pump enough blood.

Only chance for the patient's survival now is early opening up of the blocked coronary artery by PCI ( per cutaneous coronary intervention). The Catheterisation lab is already ready and the PCI team is ready to take over. By the time I arrived Dr. Manoj the anaesthesiologist on call is already taking care of the patient's breathing problem. But his blood pressure still remains 70 systolic despite two drugs on flow to keep it up.
By the time we finished the procedure and opened up the clogged artery it was almost 2 am. But to see his smile now makes all the nightmare we endured that night worthwhile

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Muscat

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