PRINCE KUMAR
Ranchi, May 19: The Cardio-Thoracic Vascular Surgery (CTVS) department of RIMS successfully conducted its first Triple Valve Surgery (TVS), which has been conducted for the first time in the whole state giving a fresh lease of life to Parvati Marandi (27), a resident of Dhanbad.
The CTVS department of RIMS has added a new chapter in the history of the hospital by performing Triple Valve Surgery in just four hours. During Parvati’s open-heart surgery, two valves namely the Mitral and Aortic valves were replaced with mechanical ones and the Tricuspid valve was repaired.
The Head of the CTVS department, Dr Vineet Mahajan said that the patient’s all the major three valves were damaged due to Rheumatic Heart Disease because of which her heart was enlarged and the function of the heart had reduced.
“It was a major operation which was done for the first time in the state. In this type of surgery the risk is very high as well as death after surgery is common,” he added.
Dr Rakesh Kumar Choudhary said that the patient was suffering because of this problem for the past one and half years and had gone many places to get the treatment.
“After coming to RIMS she was diagnosed and we decided to perform open-heart surgery where her two valves were replaced with the mechanical one and the other valve was repaired. The major surgery went on for 4 hours and the patient was extubated (taken out of the ventilator) within two hours of the surgery. The patient is fine now and doing well,” Dr Rakesh added.
The doctors involved in the surgery include Dr Vineet Mahajan (Surgeon), Dr Rakesh Kumar Choudhary (Surgeon), Dr Anshul Kumar (Surgeon), and Dr Sheo Priye (Anaesthesiologist), Dr Nitesh Sinha (Anaesthesiologist), Dr Mukesh (Anaesthesiologist) and Amit Singh (Perfusionist).
The patient’s brother Sukhlal Marandi said that the whole family was confused about how to get her sister well. They finally decided to visit RIMS after no result from the treatment being done in Dhanbad.
“I am thankful to the whole team of CTVS department that their continuous effort has paid the result to us and they have made my sister well,” he added.
Describing the vision of the CTVS department Dr Rakesh said, “In the upcoming days more such difficult surgeries will be performed in the CTVS department which will be beneficial for the people of the state who have to travel to metro cities for treatment. At present, we are performing one or two open-heart surgeries with several other thoracic and vascular surgeries in a day. But with the availability of better ICU facilities and another heart-lung machine for the second operation theatre, four open-heart surgeries will be possible in a day which will reduce the waiting list of patients in the CTVS department.”
