Chennai, Dec 25: In a rare hybrid surgical procedure, a team of doctors at a private hospital here corrected simultaneously seven abnormalities in the heart of a 54-year-old man.
Dr VV Bashi of MIOT Hospitals, who led the team, said the patient, Narayanasamy of Chennai, came to the hospital with chest pain, breathlessness and palpitation and was in a “very serious condition”.
An angiogram showed seven abnormalities, including a large hole in ventricular septum (dividing partition between two tissues), a large hole in atrial septum, enlarged muscle on the heart’s right side, absent pulmonary valve with severe leak, large aneurysm (widening of artery) and calcification and leak in the aortic valve.
He said the surgery in which all the abnormalities were corrected in about seven hours was the first of its kind in the world. “The patient’s heart was stopped for three hours through a device to perform the surgery,” he said adding that the patient had recovered well and would be discharged tomorrow.
–Agencies