The cardiac surgeons of the Mahant Indiresh hospital here have claimed to perform first Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery (MICS) heart surgery of the State where by –pass operation was done on a patient by an incision of two inches only.
Informing the media men here on Wednesday about the surgery, the Medical Superintendent, Dr Vinay Rai and head of department of CTVS, Dr Ashok Kumar Jayant said that one Dinesh Singh, a resident of Haridwar, was suffering from a heart related ailment. The test report diagnosed blockage in two of the heart’s veins and two Angioplasties that were attempted proved to be a failure.
Dr Jayant advised him opt for heart surgery which was done on November, 20, 2017 by the MICS technique. The patient was discharged from the hospital on Saturday. Dr Jayant said that in normal heart surgery, incision of 8 to 10 inches has to be done under the neck, on the front over the chest and the bone of the chest has to be cut from the mid for the surgery to be done. Compared to this, in MICS surgery, just a small incision of 2 inches has to be done on the left o right side of the chest. The recovery of patients in such surgery is also fast.