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ITANAGAR: A team of doctors and other medical staff of the Tomo Riba Institute of Health and Medical Sciences (TRIHMS) implanted a three-tesla MRI-compatible dual chamber automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator (AICD) for primary prevention of cardiac arrest in a 37-year-old female. The patient was suffering from cardiac sarcoidosis and severe left ventricular systolic dysfunction. The AICD device implantation is the first of its kind in the state, adding another feather to the cap of the department of cardiology and TRIHMS as a whole. The team includes Cardiologist Dr. R. D. Megeji, Dr. Tony Ete, catheter lab technician Nilutpal Goswami, and OT nursing officer Joram Moni.
The team, which has so far performed over seventy permanent pacemaker installations, expressed gratitude to the patient and her family, the head of anesthesiology of the institute, the in-charge of the operation theatre, the TRIHMS Director, and the state government for having faith in them. With the installation of the cath lab at TRIHMS, the team looked forward to bringing and performing life-saving cardiac procedures within the state, thereby circumventing financial and mental burden and also decreasing the risk of imminent death, as a press communiqué informed here.
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