Cardiologists at the Peshawar Institute of Cardiology have performed an angiography without the risk of a contrast dye injection for what is believed to be the first time in Pakistan.

Contrast dye injected into vessels helps medical experts diagnose better but it can harm the kidneys. Angiography is a type of X-ray used to check blood vessels. It needs a liquid dye so the cardiologist can see blood vessels that do not show up in normal x-rays.

According to hospital spokesperson Rifaat Anjum, doctors have succeeded for the first time in transplanting a cardiac stent on an 83-year-old patient with kidney disease, in order to treat narrowed or blocked coronary arteries.