Doctors have given a 65-year-old Delhi-based patient suffering from heart valve leakage, a new lease of life using a unique treatment procedure.
The patient was suffering from a severe case of heart valve leakage and was not responding to any medicines.
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The addition of mitral valve (MV) repair (a valve of the heart) to coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), a type of open-heart surgery, did not result in significant benefit to the patient.
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‘MitraClip procedure could serve as a new non-invasive alternate for heart valve repair procedure. Currently in the case of heart valve leakage, only heart valve repair, and replacement surgery is recommended.’
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"Due to his age and physical weakness, he could not undergo the standard heart valve repair and replacement surgery, and thus we opted for the MitraClip procedure," said a team of doctors led by Praveen Chandra, Chairman, Heart Institute at Medanta - The Medicity, in a statement on Wednesday.
MitraClip is a non-surgical treatment option in which a catheter is inserted in the patient's leg through which a clip is placed in the heart to hold the leaking valve.
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Doctors at Fortis Escorts Heart Institute in New Delhi have performed the MitraClip procedure to repair the leaking heart valve of a 69-year-old man, thereby avoiding the need for an open heart surgery.
"It is a safe alternative to the traditionally prescribed valve repair surgery," added Saibal Kar, a globally-acclaimed interventional cardiologist from Los Angeles.
Mitral valve is the one connecting two chambers of the left side of the heart, which receives impure blood from all over the body and then sends it ahead, to the lungs for purification.
A leaking mitral valve affects nearly 10 percent of the population who have coronary artery disease, heart attacks or bypass surgery and continues to increase with age. The continuously leaking valves put pressure on the heart causing breathlessness.
The minimally invasive heart valve repair is a simple procedure which offers benefits such as immediate recovery and the patient returns to a normal routine within 48 hours of the surgery.
Source: IANS
Leaking Heart Valve of 69-year Old Repaired using a Novel Procedure
Doctors at Fortis Escorts Heart Institute in New Delhi have performed the MitraClip procedure to repair the leaking heart valve of a 69-year-old man, thereby avoiding the need for an open heart surgery.
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"It is a safe alternative to the traditionally prescribed valve repair surgery," added Saibal Kar, a globally-acclaimed interventional cardiologist from Los Angeles.
Mitral valve is the one connecting two chambers of the left side of the heart, which receives impure blood from all over the body and then sends it ahead, to the lungs for purification.
A leaking mitral valve affects nearly 10 percent of the population who have coronary artery disease, heart attacks or bypass surgery and continues to increase with age. The continuously leaking valves put pressure on the heart causing breathlessness.
The minimally invasive heart valve repair is a simple procedure which offers benefits such as immediate recovery and the patient returns to a normal routine within 48 hours of the surgery.
Source: IANS
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