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NT Bureau
Chennai, Mar 24:
 

Centre for Thoracic Cardiovascular Care chairman at the MIOT Dr V V Bashi with the patient who underwent a rare open heart surgery at the hospital.

        A team of doctors, headed by Dr V V Bashi at MIOT Hospitals, Chennai, has done a rare major heart surgery on a 45 year-old man recently and corrected seven abnormalities in the heart simultaneously.

        It is said that this is the first such case reported in the world that has been successful.

        Briefing reporters at the hospital today, chairman of Centre for Thoracic Cardiovascular Care at the MIOT Dr V V Bashi, said, 'My team and I performed the surgery on 12 March'.

        The patient was born with a blue baby heart. He underwent a watersten shunt in 1967 and was diagnosed with pentology of fallot with multiple holes in the heart. Following the operation, he was on with medicines and he needed a complex corrective surgery to become normal, which was not done because of the high risk involved. He had gone to the hospital with history of breathlessness and palpitation on exertion. He was not able to carry on with his normal activities, so he was admitted on 8 March.

        Dr Bashi said, 'during the marathon eight hour operation, we closed all the three holes in the heart with patches, opened the valve connecting the lungs to the heart, removed the enlarged muscles from the right side of the heart, enlarged pulmonary artery, closed the shunt, replaced the ascending aorta and aortic valve in a single open heart operation. During the operation, the patient was connected to the heart lung machine for more than five hours. About 15 units of blood were used for the operation.'

        The operation was done at a concessional charge, since the patient was not financially sound. Normally, it will cost anywhere around Rs four to Rs five lakh.

        While speaking to reporters, the patient thanked the team of doctors for giving him a new lease of life.