Heart surgeries are complicated and when it comes to Bentall's procedure the risks go higher. Paras Hospital, Gurugram has come up with an effective solution, as they successfully cured a patient above maladies, without much need for an invasive approach. Using their invasive technology, Paras has done a difficult job as it provided a conclusive relief to this ongoing problem.
The 21-year-old young man, Amit Kumar, who hails from Haryana, had been suffering from chest pain, breathlessness on minimal exertion. Echocardiogram showed severe aortic regurgitation with dilated ascending aorta. CT aortogram showed dilatation of aorta over 5.9cms (normal range -2.0-3.5cms). He was advised to undergo a complex heart surgery called as Bentall's operation.
“This was the first time we were treating such a patient. Through this surgery, we replaced ascending aorta and aortic valve together. This operation is generally done through a full midline sternotomy wound around 25cms in length. As he has to join a college in Australia in a few months, we decided to do it through minimally invasive approach and did the same surgery through a 9 cms incision, by using latest minimally invasive technology. Due to this technique, we believe that he will be able to recover fast and be fully independent in a few days instead of taking a few weeks,” said Dr Mahesh Wadhwani, MS, MCh, Head of Department, Cardiothoracic and vascular surgery, Paras Hospital, Gurugram.
There are only a handful of centers in the country which can perform this complex a procedure through minimally invasive heart surgery. This is for the first time such a surgery has been performed in Gurugram. He is now recovering well and will get discharged from hospital very soon, said Dr Alok Sahoo, Chief of cardiac anesthesia team, at Paras Hospital, Gurgaon.
