LONDON: Jaffar Khan, a Pakistani cardiologist, has secured the prestigious2018 Young Investigators Award of the British Cardiovascular InterventionSociety.
He conducted first successful set of surgeries on humans using a procedurehe came up with, reported a TV channel.
He used a procedure that is medically described as ‘laceration of theanterior mitral valve leaflet to prevent outflow track obstruction,’nicknamed with the acronym “LAMPOON”.
“LAMPOON is a procedure I invented at the National Institutes of Health inAmerica. It is a ‘keyhole’ cardiac surgery technique that resects hearttissue for the first time using minimally invasive techniques,” Jaffarsaid, according to the report.
“I am now the clinical lead for an FDA approved clinical trial togetherwith Dr Robert Lederman, head of the cardiovascular intervention branch atNIH.”