Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 10: “Non-invasive techniques to treat ailing heart valves are most effective and there is urgent need to spread awareness on it. The aged people affected by ailing valves are forced to live poor, healthy lives. The heart valves can be repaired without surgery and patients can live a healthy life.”
This was stated by Punjab Rattan awardee from Patiala, Dr Rajneesh Kapoor a leading cardiologist and Cchairman of Interventional Cardiology at Medanta the Medicity Gurgaon.
Addressing a press conference, Kapoor said, “MitraClip is a minimally invasive device used to treat mitral valve regurgitation, a condition where the heart’s mitral valve doesn’t close tightly, allowing blood to flow backward into the heart.”
He said, “The mitral valve sits between the left atrium and left ventricle. When it leaks, some blood flows backward during each heartbeat. This can reduce the efficiency of the heart and lead to symptoms or complications. The symptoms include fatigue or feeling unusually tired, shortness of breath, especially when lying down, heart palpitations, swollen ankles or feet and irregular heartbeat (arrhythmia). Some people may have no symptoms for years, especially if the leakage is mild.”
“In MitraClip, a small clip is implanted via catheter to help the mitral valve close more completely. It is designed for patients who are too high-risk for open-heart surgery and used in a procedure called Trans catheter Edge-to-Edge Repair (TEER),” Dr Kapoor said.
“It is the most prevalent type of heart valve disease affecting a million patients worldwide annually. Trans catheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR or TAVI) is a procedure that is performed to replace aortic valve through a catheter, this does not entail cutting the chest wide open and many patients can resume routine activities in 3-4 days’ time,” he added.
Pushpinder Garg (67) who recently underwent MitraClip by Dr Kapoor said that earlier he was facing great hardship in living his normal life.
He could not do anything due to shortness of breath and fatigue and also could not go for another surgery as he already had an aortic valve replacement surgery and his old age well.
Now he is perfectly well and leading his normal healthy life.
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