 I am Dr. M. C. Utthappa, head of interventional radiology across Manipal Group of Hospitals in Bangalore. Today I will be talking about a new procedure that we have started at Manipal Group of Hospitals. It is called Geniculate Artery Embalisation. This is the procedure that we do which is minimally invasive for patients with intractable knee pain in their knee joints. As we are aware knee pain is a common problem in patients above age 60 and lot of these patients are on regular painkillers, regular injections into the knee joint and some of these patients will go on to needing total knee replacement or knee arthroplasty. In the past patients with knee pain or bleeding into the knee joints after even a knee replacement we have successfully done Geniculate Artery Embalisation to stop the bleeding. Leading from the success of these procedures we are now able to offer Geniculate Artery Embalisation as a new treatment non-surgical option for patients with significant knee pain who have failed conservative treatment plan. Increasingly this procedure has become common practice across the globe and this is a minimally invasive procedure where patients can get significant improvement in pain, function and hopefully many of these patients will not need total knee replacement. The clinical trials have shown significant improvement lasting from 6 months to 24 months in many of these patients. Because the procedure is minimally invasive it can be done under local anesthesia and it can also be done as a daycare procedure thereby minimizing any surgical related complications. It is interesting also to note that many patients who are not suitable for surgery can also benefit from these procedures. We are hoping that this procedure will help many patients cope with the knee pain that they are having on a daily basis. We want to focus on careful patient selection because this is a relative new procedure and we want to make sure that these procedures are done to patients who are specifically going to benefit from this. We have a careful selection criteria for these procedures but we are confident with the success that we have achieved in similar territory of the knee that we will be able to help these patients with significant knee pain. Thank you.