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Ranchi, Mar 21: The Cardio-Thoracic Vascular Surgery (CTVS) department of RIMS successfully conducted its second minimally invasive heart surgery giving a fresh lease of life to Jyoti Kumari (25), a resident of Hazaribagh.
The CTVS department of RIMS has added a new chapter in the history of the hospital by performing a second minimally invasive heart surgery in just two and half hours.
Jyoti Kumari had a hole in her heart which was closed by performing the surgery.
Head of the CTVS department, Dr. Vineet Mahajan said that the patient had ASD closure for a hole in the heart from birth.
“The patient’s heart was stopped for 30 minutes, after making a small incision in the right side of the chest to reach the heart and the hole was closed. The patient was also extubated (taken out of the ventilator) just after the surgery in the operation theatre. In the case of open-heart surgery usually, it takes 1-2 days for the patient to be extubated, but due to a less invasive procedure, it was taken out of the ventilator immediately after the operation,” Mahajan said.
Sanjay Mishra, husband of the patient said that they came to know about the hole in the heart at CRPF hospital in Hazaribagh after which she was referred to RIMS.
“At first I was not sure how to get her operated on at RIMS but when I came to know about Dr. Vineet Mahajan who has come here after serving at AIIMS Bhopal then I got convinced and decided to get my wife treated at RIMS. The surgery was conducted successfully and she is doing well now,” Mishra said.
The doctors involved in the surgery include Dr. Vineet Mahajan (Surgeon), Dr. Anshul Kumar (Surgeon), Dr. Rakesh Kumar Choudhary (Surgeon), Dr. Sheo Priye (Anaesthesiologist), Dr. Nitesh Sinha (Anaesthesiologist), Dr. Mukesh (Anaesthesiologist) and Amit Singh (Perfusionist).
Minimally invasive heart surgery involves making small incisions in the chest to reach the heart between the ribs, rather than cutting through the breastbone, as is done in open-heart surgery.
The potential benefits of minimally invasive heart surgery, when compared with open-heart surgery, can include less blood loss, lower risk of infection, reduced trauma and pain, shorter time in the hospital, faster recovery and quicker return to normal activities and smaller and less noticeable scar.
