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Hyderabad hospital performs rare heart surgery
Our Bureau
Hyderabad
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Jan. 24
IN a rare surgery, doctors at the Mahavir Hospital here performed a bypass surgery on a 55-year-old man with multiple blocks in his heart, which was on the right side along with the stomach.
The doctors performed coronary artery bypass on January 12 using five grafts. The patient is doing well now, explained Dr K.V. Krishna Kumar, Dr M.S. Satish and anaesthetists, Dr Murali and Dr Ashalatha.
Mr Sleeva Reddy from Phirangipuram in Guntur district had complained of chest pain. His angiogram revealed Dextrocardia with situs inversus (right sided heart, stomach with triple vessel coronary artery disease). This condition is rare with the incidence as low as 0.001 per cent of the population, Dr Kumar told newspersons today.
The doctors from the Mahavir Cardiovascular Centre of the Hospital said the surgery was done at subsidised costs at Rs 60,000. It is in isolated case in which the heart and stomach were reversed. Normally, if the heart is on the right side, the patient is prone to early problems of the heart.
The condition is congenital. Doctors have earlier performed angioplasty on patients with problems of the heart on the right side, they said.
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