Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 26: The new non-surgical treatment for aortic heart diseases named TAVI – Transcutaneous Aortic Valve Replacement and recent advances in Cardiac Interventions has come as a boon for the heart patients.
Using this latest technique the team of leading interventional cardiologist at Paras Multi Speciality Hospital has successfully operated upon a 70-year-old female patient. This was stated by Chairman Cardiac Sciences of the Hospital, Dr HK Bali during a media briefing.
Dr Rana Sandeep Singh (Director CTVS), Dr Kapil Chattree (Sr Consultant Cardiology), Dr Gagan Deep Singh (Consultant Cardiology) and Dr Priyanka Gupta (Consultant Cardiac Anesthesia) from Paras Super Specialty Hospital, Panchkula were present at the media briefing.
Dr Bali explained that aortic stenosis occurs when the heart’s aortic valve narrows. This narrowing prevents the valve from opening fully, which reduces or blocks blood flow from your heart into the main artery to your body (aorta) and onward to the rest of your body thereby creating severe health issues for heart patients.
Chairman Cardiac Sciences said that with an experience of more than 30 years in Cardiology and having conducted over 15000 cardiac interventions, he had performed this surgery ten days ago. This is first case of non surgical valve-in-valve replacement procedure. With this, the Paras Hospital has become first private hospital in Tricity to start Non-Surgical Valve in Valve Replacement procedure.
He added that procedure was conducted on a 70 year old Female patient who had undergone Surgical Valve replacement in heart about 6 years ago. Dr Bali said that Percutaneous aortic valve replacement is a new treatment option for heart patients of critical aortic stenosis, in whom surgical risk is very high as it carries increased morbidity. This is the first case of non-surgical Valve in valve replacement in this region and comes as a boon to patients of North India.
The procedure lasted 2.5 hours and was completely successful. Patient has made a complete recovery and has become mobile from the second day after the procedure.
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