PRINCE KUMAR
Ranchi, May 20: The Cardio-Thoracic Vascular Surgery (CTVS) department of RIMS successfully conducted an open-heart surgery on a double-sized heart patient giving a fresh lease of life to Mohammad Afroz Qureshi, a resident of Giridih.
During the open-heart surgery Mitral valve was replaced with a mechanical one and Left Atrium Reduction was done to reduce the size of the heart of the 40-year-old Afroz.
Dr Rakesh Kumar Choudhary said that the patient had the problem of breathlessness and his ability to work was depleted when he arrived at RIMS.
“During the initial investigation, we found that his three valves of the heart were damaged and was kept on medications for all the time during covid period and it was found that his two valves got healed. After which we decided to conduct open-heart surgery on the patient which went on for 4 hours and his Mitral valve was replaced and the left atrium reduction was done,” he added.
Thanking Dr Rakesh, Afroz said, “I had completely lost the hope of returning to work, but with the continuous efforts of the CTVS department and Dr Rakesh, I am well again and will join my work after getting discharged from here.”
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).
Describing the vision of the CTVS department Dr Rakesh said, “More complicated surgeries will be conducted in the CTVS department in the coming days, which will benefit residents of the state who had to travel to metro areas for treatment. We currently execute one or two open-heart surgeries per day, along with various additional thoracic and vascular procedures. However, with improved ICU facilities and a second heart-lung machine in the second operation theatre, four open-heart surgeries will be possible each day, reducing the CTVS department’s patient waiting list.”
Dr Rakesh further said that introduction of rotation of beds in the department will increase the number of surgeries being performed in the department.
