Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 14: A complex double heart valve surgery was performed successfully by the Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery (CVTS), Super-specialty Hospital (SSH), Government Medical College (GMC) Jammu.
A 25-year-old female patient had been suffering from Rheumatic Heart Disease with Severe Mitral and Severe Aortic Valve Disease. The patient had multiple admissions for severe heart valve related problems in GMC Jammu and had been advised surgery long back. The patient was very sick in advanced NYHA functional class and was bed ridden. For most of the vital organs, besides oral she needed aggressive injectable pharmacotherapy for weeks together before surgery.
She was operated under total Cardiopulmonary Bypass (that is when Aorta is cross clamped and heart was not beating) and moderate hypothermia (decreased temperature during surgery). She had severely diseased, dystrophic, calcific, stenotic and regurgitant valves. Her diseased Mitral and Aortic Valve were excised, calcium was removed and both the valves were replaced with St Jude prosthesis.
The Cardiac Anesthesia team was led by Head of Cardio-Thoracic Anesthesia Department Professor (Dr) Pooja Vimesh and he was assisted by Dr Rasmeet, Dr Vikas, Senior Residents and Residents. Senior and other technologist from CTA Vikas Sharma, Sumit and Arif were part of the team. Anesthesia was so smooth that intra-operative period, extubation and post operative period were uneventful.
The surgical team led by Dr IA Mir included Dr Arvind Kohli, Dr Shyam Singh, Dr Mohit Arora, Dr Vivek Gandotra and Dr Javaid Banday. Cardiopulmonary machine (which functions for heart/lung during surgery) as usual was run by Sr Perfusionist Charan Jeet Singh and Roshan Lal. Scrub side/flooring and support services were led by Vishaali, Sapna Kumari, Balvir Kour, Fareena, Renu Nathyal, Rigzen Angmo, Sonia Sharma, Arjumand Shaheen, Susheel Sharma, Sunil and Deepak.
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