The Advanced Cardiac Institute (ACI) situated behind the Medical College Hospital here performed the first Trans-catheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) procedure, saving the life of a 70-year-old man.
The procedure costs about 25 lakhs in private hospitals. The Chhattisgarh Government provided the procedure for free to the poor patient under Dr. Khoobchand Baghel Swastyha Sahayata Yojana.
The patient from a small village near Raigarh was suffering from breathlessness. On investigation he was found to have aortic bicuspid valve, but his heart had become severely dysfunctional by then because of severe aortic valve stenosis.
Cardiac surgeons refused to operate such a diseased heart. The patient was evaluated to undergo TAVR.
Without anaesthesia and without any incision on the chest, a trans-cutaneous aortic valve was put through the thigh artery. There are only 30 centres in India doing TAVR. ACI joined the list with its successful procedure on January 9.
The procedure was carried under leadership of Head of Cardiology Department Dr. Smit Shrivastava with Dr Jogesh Daswani, Dr. Sulabh, Dr. Sandeep Nag, Dr. Shivangi Sengupta, Dr. Shriya Ambhaikar and Dr. Simran Rana.
The surgical and anaesthesia back up was taken care by Dr. K.K. Sahu, Dr. N. S. Chandel and Dr. Arunabh Mukherjee. The cardiac technical team had Shri I. P. Verma and Sister Sheena looking after the patient during and after the procedure.
The success of this advanced procedure has paved the way for many more complicated and advanced procedures to be done in future at ACI. Open heart surgeries are going to be started soon at the institute.
ACI has successfully operated from 10 days old child to 104 years old patient.