Chennai
The patient had undergone a total surgical correction in 1981 for a very rare condition called Tetralogy of Fallot that led to a combination of four heart defects that are present at birth. After developing a leak in the pulmonary valve around May 2019, the patient came to Apollo Hospitals with a history of breathlessness and tiredness.
The medical reports revealed that the patient was suffering from severe valve leak that had progressed to the right side pumping chamber of her heart, which later began to dilate and affected the heart’s functioning.
Dr CS Muthukumaran, consultant structural interventional cardiologist at Apollo Hospitals, decided to perform a very high risk valve implantation in June 2019. “We decided to perform 29 mm valve implantation but it had to be imported from China. The implantation had to be postponed due to the pandemic and world’s first 32 mm valve being made in India was used. The latest technology helps us to do valve replacement without surgery in a single day admission. This 32 mm new valve has widened our scope to design better treatments for the patient with such heart defects and other anomalies,” he was quoted in a statement from the hospital.
The team of doctors, including senior consultant interventional cardiologist Dr Sengottuvelu and senior cardiac surgeon Dr Neville Solomon and others, implanted the valve through the tube that takes blood to heart from the groin of the patient. The whole procedure was successfully completed in two hours and the patient was discharged the very next day, the statement added.
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