Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 29: Amid the fight with Corona virus, doctors at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital performed a complex heart surgery and saved precious life.
As per medical bulletin, 31-year-old Kirti, a resident of Rohini in Delhi, was suffering from chronic cardiac ailments since past four years. It was in the last week of April when she needed an urgent open-heart surgery. She was on medical observation and treatment for her leaking heart valve since last four years. She was suffering with “Bicuspid Aortic Valve”, a congenital abnormality of aortic valve which doesn’t cause any problem in ninety percent of the patients.
Her Echocardiogram was repeated in last week of April and it was discovered that along with her leaking heart valve, she had significant enlargement of ascending aorta (the aorta is the largest blood vessel in the body which carries an oxygen-rich blood from the heart to every part of the body) which had expanded to five centimeter as against normal size of three centimeter. This is a potentially dangerous condition as abnormally expanded aorta can rupture anytime leading to dissection of aorta.
The Cardio Thoracic surgery and cardiology team at Indraprastha Apollo, led by Dr Mukesh Goel and Dr Rajeev Kumar Rajput conducted the high-risk Open-Heart Surgery of Bentall’s Procedure that involved replacement of the leaking valve and abnormal portion of ascending aorta.
Dr Mukesh Goel, Senior Consultant, Cardio Thoracic & Vascular Surgery and Heart & Lung Transplant, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals said, “In a six-hour-long open heart procedure, they replaced the damaged valve and aorta utilizing a specialized valved graft and re-implants coronary arteries into the graft. Post-surgery the patient also experienced a heart rhythm block for which a pacemaker was implanted.” After recovering successfully, the patient was discharged on 10th May, he added.
Dr Rajeev Kumar Rajput, Senior Consultant, Interventional Cardiology, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals said, “If the patient was not treated timely, it could be catastrophic and life threatening because of dissection and rupture of aorta.”
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