Hyderabad: Cardiologist at Apollo Medical College performs minimally invasive procedure on 16-year-old boy

Hyderabad: Cardiologists at Apollo Medical College on Tuesday said they have successfully carried out a vital minimally invasive procedure in a 16-year-old boy, who had earlier undergone open heart surgery for a congenital heart defect. Death.

The teenager was admitted to Apollo Hospital with difficulty in breathing and chest pain. Leading cardiologist Dr Manoj Aggarwal and cardiologist pediatrician Dr Amol Gupta said evaluation with echography and cardiac magnetic resonance revealed poor function of the right ventricle of the heart.

The doctors decided to perform a minimally invasive procedure and not open heart surgery. He placed an implanted transcatheter of the pulmonary valve using a 35 mm Mival, a bioprosthetic valve artificial, in the right ventricle in the laboratory of catherism.

Since then, the patient has recovered with no fugus after the procedure and has had excellent results and improved heart function.