VADODARA: About 10 days ago Devang Pawar suffered a massive heart attack and was brought to a private hospital in the city in a very critical condition.
The 49-year-old resident of Jamnagar was suffering from Antero Septal Myocardial Infarction (ASMI) and his blood pressure had dropped to dangerous levels.
Doctors treating him said that only 25% of patients suffering from ASMI survive and that too with post-surgery complications.
“We did some check-ups and CT scans and the surgery was planned the very next day.
It was an eight-hour long rare surgery involving complex procedures,” said Dr Vipul Vaghela, senior consultant cardiothoracic surgeon, Bankers Heart Institute.
The patient’s left coronary artery was completely blocked due to which 60% of his heart muscle was damaged that affected pumping function of the heart.
“The heart attack caused ballooning of the left side of the heart and there was a big hole in the wall of the heart between right and left ventricles.
I have never seen a patient with both these conditions survive.
Half of them die on the spot and only 25% of those who make it to the hospital survive the surgery,” Vaghela told TOI.
A team of doctors headed by Dr Darshan Banker, interventional cardiologist, Dr Suvankar Ghosh, interventional cardiologist, Dr Vipul Vaghela, senior consultant cardiothoracic surgeon, Dr Manoj Subramanian, cardiothoracic anaesthetist and their team performed the surgery.
“We first replaced the heart muscle with a synthetic patch in a way that would allow the heart pumping function to improve as well as retain the shape of the heart.
The hole in the septum was repaired with a synthetic Dacron patch by a unique infarct exclusion technique, which gives early as well as long term results,” Vaghela explained.
“The patient was shifted to the critical care unit in a stable condition and discharged after eight days.
Pawar is the only earning member of his family that includes his wife and a daughter,” said Dr Parul Banker, medical director, Bankers Group of Hospital.