Another landmark heart surgery performed in NEIGRIHMS

A Correspondent

Shillong, June 3: North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regiol Institute of Health and Medical Sciences (NEIGRIHMS) has achieved another milestone in the field of cardiac surgery by successfully performing a Minimally Invasive Beating Heart Valve Replacement Surgery on a young adult a few days back. The patient was suffering from Rheumatic Heart disease and one of the valves in his heart was severely rrowed leading to tiredness, easy fatigability, affecting his normal day to day activity.

Although Heart Valve Surgery in the form replacement and repair of single valve, Double Valve or triple valve was being regularly performed in NEIGRIHMS with excellent results since its inception of cardiac surgical department in the year 2007. But in this patient a newer form of technique was being adopted to perform the same so as to have faster recovery with  less post operative pain, beside being cosmetically acceptable operative wound in the body and cost effective in terms of reduced hospital stay.

In conventiol form of Open Heart Surgery the operation is performed after opening the chest by cutting through the breast bone in the midline. The entire operation is done after stopping the heart temporarily during the operative period and thereafter heart is again re-start to beat normally at the completion of the operation. In the Minimally Invasive Surgery the operative approach to the heart is not through the midline instead lateral to the chest with a small opening without cutting any bone.

In this particular case apart from the Minimally Invasive the entire operation was performed in beating heart without allowing it to stop during the surgery. Though Beating Heart Corory Bypass Surgery is common these days but Beating Heart Valve Surgery is a newer concept and performed in very few selected centers of India.

The Minimally Invasive Beating Heart Valvular Surgery on this 36 year old male from Jorhat , Assam was successfully conducted for the first time in Northeast by a team of cardiac surgeons from NEIGRIHMS lead by Prof. A.G. Ahangar, Director of NEIGRIHMS along with Prof. Manuj Kr. Saikia, Head of the Department Cardiac Surgery, Dr. Jyoti Prasad Kalita, Assistant Professor of Cardiac Surgery. The surgery was supported by cardiac anesthesia team under the leadership of Additiol Professor Md. Yunus.