Stent boy: Chennai teen is the youngest Asian with five stents in heart

By M. C. Rajan Updated: 20:47 BST, 26 February 2012

Like any 17-year-old boy bursting with energy, Raghuveer Soni bounds up the stairs 主要な to his first-床に打ち倒す house in a congested locality of north Chennai.

He throws the schoolbag on the sofa and seems to be in a 涙／ほころびing hurry to 除去する his uniform and change into casuals.

Raghuveer shows no 調印するs of having run out of steam after a 税金ing day at school.

Remarkable 回復: Raghuveer (centre) with his parents Kantha and Mahesh Soni

Neither does the Class XI student's sprightly demeanour betray the fact that he is the youngest Asian to be fitted with five stents at one go in a cardiac 外科 that was 成し遂げるd barely a month ago.

His 回復 has been so 劇の that he 再結合させるd school within a week after the angioplasty.

When Raghuveer complained of chest 苦痛 and 表明するd his 無（不）能 to walk, his parents Mahesh Soni (40) - who runs a family's 織物 商売／仕事 - and homemaker Kantha (37) could never in their wildest dreams imagine that it was a major 複雑化. The family doctor also 定める／命ずるd 薬／医学s only for gastritis.

But when the 苦痛 固執するd, the eleventh grader's parents sought その上の 医療の advice and he was made to を受ける several 実験（する）s.

Raghuveer's middle-class family with Rajasthani roots was left 爆撃する-shoc ked last year when the only son in the 一族／派閥 was 診断するd with 多重の 封鎖するs in his heart 大型船s.

Dr Sanjiv Agarwal 扱う／治療するd Raghuveer

The cholesterol level of the boy, who has two younger sisters, was discovered to be alarmingly high.

その上に, he had 二塁打 封鎖するs in one 大型船 and 選び出す／独身 封鎖するs in three others.

'It was astounding that he had so many 封鎖するd 大型船s at such a tender age. What was worse, we were told that the only way out was to 支配する him to an open heart 外科. Every 法人組織の／企業の hospital that we visited （機の）カム up with the same daunting 解答,' Mahesh 解任するd.

'One of the hospitals even 始める，決める a 15-day 最終期限 within which the 操作／手術 needed to be 行為／行うd. But his angiogram was 成し遂げるd only six months later,' Mahesh said, 追加するing that he had made up his mind to consider open heart 外科 only as a last 訴える手段／行楽地.

Moreover, the family, which has 持続するd its links with their village 近づく Jodhpur, was not in a position to foot a hefty hospital 法案.

Therefore, on a 親族's suggestion, they 接触するd cardiologist Dr Sanjiv Agarwal, a 上級の 顧問 at Fortis Malar Hospital in Chennai.

< font style="font-size: 1.2em;">'It was at a 医療の （軍の）野営地，陣営 that we 遭遇（する）d Dr Agarwal, and he infused us with hope that Raghuveer could be cured of the cardiac 病気 without going under the knife,' Mahesh said.

'In angioplasty (it is used to 広げる heart 大型船s 狭くするd by stenoses or occlusions), there is no mental or physical 強調する／ストレス. Neither does the 患者 carry the scars of a bypass 外科,' Dr Agarwal said.

'I also recommended angioplasty in Raghuveer's 事例／患者 because a long academic break at this 行う／開催する／段階 would have had a 消極的な 耐えるing on his 未来 career,' the doctor, who is an 専門家 in the 手続き, 推論する／理由d.

'Later, we realised that it was the first such 事例／患者 in the continent,' he 追加するd. The stents were 輸入するd from Japan and fitted on the 十代の少年少女 on January 26 this year.

Interestingly, the 即座の family along with other 親族s watched the 外科 live through ビデオ. In fact, the boy was a silent 観客 to it 同様に.

'Now, Raghuveer's family must 確実にする that he sheds the extra キロs and his cholesterol level remains in check,' the 外科医 pointed out.

'We have stopped giving him ghee. The two of us (Mahesh and his wife) have also started 観察するing the same diet 計画（する） as our son's,' Mahesh said.

For his part, Raghuveer, who has no 利益／興味 in outdoor games, said: 'I now go for 30-minute walks in the morning and evening.' With the teen 支援する on his feet, the Soni 世帯 is alive and kicking again.