Rare Heart Surgery at Dr.Kamakshi Memorial Hospital .
The Chennai based Dr.Kamakshi Memorial Hospital (KMH) performed a very rare heart surgery on a 20 year old girl Miss.Dalal from Basara , Iraq. She had complaints of breathing, combined with bouts of cough and pain in the chest.
Tweet-- The challenge before the team of doctors lead by Dr. Premanand Ponoth, Chief Cardiac Surgeon,KMH was that the heart was on the right side and this called for clear understanding and analyzing the whole situation and planning the complicated surgery.
Dalal had consulted many doctors in Iraq and neighboring countries with no success and nobody offering any clear solution. After investigation Dr.Premanand found that she had holes in the heart and there was mixing of pure and impure blood inside the heart. The pressure in the heart was very high ,that made the task even more risky. Dr.Premanand and team took up the challenge and operated upon her and she is recovering well.The operation lasted for over 6 hours.Miss.Dalal is leaving for Iraq tomorrow and is in good shape.
Addressing Media persons Dr.Premanand said,"The Right-sided heart is a rare phenomenon and is found one in 10,000 people. These people will have rotation of the abdominal organs also. Miss.Dalal had only the heart rotation, which is even more rare (1 in 1,30,000). Such a rare case having a defective heart extremely rare.This type of case is seldom reported.We are happy that our team came out successful in this very difficult surgery and the patient also, is recovering fast".
He further added, " 20 years old girl Miss.Dalal came from BASARA (IRAQ) to me with complaints of breathing difficulty and occasional cough. She had consulted many doctors in IRAQ and neighboring countries. All of them told her that She has the heart on the right side and has defect which cannot be operated. She came to me as I have operated one of her relative. After investigation I found that she has holes inside the heart and there was mixing of pure and impure blood inside the heart. The pressure inside the heart was very high. I took up the challenge and operated her and is recovering well.
Patient under went open heart surgery. After connecting the patient to heart lung machine, heart was arrested. The right upper chamber of the heart was opened and the defect which caused mixing of blood. It was found to be 3 cm X 2.5 cm, which was closed with pericardial patch. Patient withstood the surgery well and was shifted to ICU in stable condition. She is getting discharge today (25/06/2010) and she is back to normal diet, operation site has healed well and is ambulant.
Right sided heart is a rare phenomenan and is found one in 10,000 people. These people will have rotation of the abdominal organs also. Miss.Dalal had only the heart rotation which is even more rare (1 in 1,30,000).Such a rare case having a defective heart is even more rare. This type of cases are seldom reported.
According to Dr.T.G.Govindarajan, Chairman,KMH, Dr.Kamakshi Memorial Hospital was established in memory of his wife Dr.Kamakshi with whom he had been practising medicine for twenty-five years and passed away a few years ago after a short battle with cancer.Right from its inception KMH has taken up challenging assignments and have succeeded in saving lives and one classic example is the case of Miss.Dalal.