Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Dec 16: The Department of CVTS at SKIMS today successfully performed a ‘Bentall Procedure with Replacement of the Arch of Aorta’, a complex cardiac surgery, on a 40-year-old male.
According to SKIMS, the patient initially presented at a peripheral hospital with acute chest pain and headache with a CT scan conducted there revealing an acute aortic dissection, a life-threatening condition where the inner layer of the aorta, the largest blood vessel in the body, tears.
Doctors said the patient was immediately referred to the Department of CVTS, SKIMS, where further investigations confirmed an acute aortic dissection involving the arch of the aorta and its branches, which supply blood to the brain and upper body.
Additionally, he was diagnosed with severe leakage of the aortic valve. “If left untreated, this condition carries a 100% mortality risk,” they added.
The surgery successfully restored blood flow to the brain and the rest of the body.
It involved replacing the aortic valve, the damaged section of the aorta, and the blood vessels supplying the brain with an artificial ‘Dacron tube graft’, according to doctors.
It is to be noted here that the ‘Bentall Procedure with Aortic Arch Replacement’ is a specialized heart surgery in which doctors replace the damaged section of the aorta, the blood vessel responsible for carrying blood from the heart to the rest of the body.
As per doctors, this procedure also involves replacing the aortic valve and the part of the aorta that supplies blood to the brain and upper body with an artificial tube.
The procedure, which lasted six hours, was conducted while the patient was on cardiopulmonary bypass.
“Following the surgery, the patient was shifted to the Cardiac ICCU and extubated after three hours without any neurological or vascular deficits. He made a full recovery and has since been discharged,” SKIMS said in a statement.
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