Coimbatore: A 70-year-old woman rushes to the Emergency Department of the Kovai Medical Center and Hospital (KMC) with a massive heart attack and low blood pressure, recently.
He was found to have a broken heart muscle in his left ventricle, which was a rare complication of a heart attack.
While the procedure that is usually closed by a large hole is open heart surgery, the hospital does not do it.
Instead, it uses a 40mm atrial septtall defect (ASD) device to close the hole.
When using a device to close the hole in the upper heart of the heart is common, using 40mm devices is rare.
“Pseudoaneurissm left left ventricle is known to have a very high mortality rate.
But in this patient, it is outbreaks with blood outside the heart that is put together by the thin membrane,” said a statement from the hospital.
Because the hole is large, patients are suggested an urgent open heart surgery, but he has complications such as sugar, obesity, and uncontrolled coronary ships.
In addition, he did not want to undergo the main surgical procedure.
The hospital’s structural heart team finally decided to try to close the outbreak of using a device like a button.
However, this is a big broke and such large devices are used in this clinical situation before.
“The procedure is very complex because the hole is very large and the network is soft and dying, there are difficulties in holding the device.
So, we use an extra large atrial septal defect device, and it sealed completely,” said Dr.
Thomas Alexander, team member.
The patient was dismissed from the hospital on the third day.
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