On Friday, the Lahore High Court (LHC) received PML-N Quaid Nawaz Sharif’s medical report in preparation for his expected return to Pakistan later this month.
Lawyer Amjad Pervez provided a report to The Express Tribune stating that Nawaz still experienced some anginal symptoms despite treatment and would need regular checkups in London and Pakistan to monitor his condition. When blood flow to the heart is restricted due to a partial or complete blockage of the arteries, a person may experience angina.
Nawaz, who was serving a seven-year prison term at the time, was granted medical leave by the LHC in 2019 for an initial duration of four weeks.
Nawaz, however, has not been seen in Pakistan since then due to his status as a “proclaimed offender” in several graft cases.
Professor Carlo Di Mario, a cardiologist at the Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals in the care of the Guy’s and St. Thomas’ National Health Service Foundation Trust, has written a new medical report stating that he “followed this patient with previous CABG (coronary artery bypass grafting), multiple angioplasties and ablations throughout his stay in London in the past years.”
The first course of action was medical; we upped his antianginal medicine. Mario claimed, “Mr. Sharif could not return to Pakistan because of his ongoing angina problems and because of the restrictions imposed by the Covid-19 epidemics.” We chose to repeat the angioplasty because his symptoms had worsened and a substantial region of ischaemia had been identified in a Rubidium PET myocardial perfusion scan.
This procedure, which was carried out in November of 2022, was designed to unblock the left circumflex artery. Multiple stents were implanted and enlarged with IVUS guidance, along with rotational atherectomy and intravascular lithotripsy.
According to his doctor, “Mr. Sharif still has some residual angina symptoms, due to diffuse distal coronary disease in a patient with diabetes and multiple other comorbidities that would require frequent follow-up investigations both in London and Pakistan.”
