Daijiworld News Network – Mangalore (VM)

Mangalore, Aug 17: The interventional cardiologists from KMC Heart Centre, Manipal performed a unique cardiac interventional procedure (without surgery) to cure cardiac disease on a Tibetan boy at KMC Heart Centre, Manipal.

Atrial Septal Defect (ASD), one of the heart diseases prevalent in children, is conventionally closed by open heart surgery. According to the cardiologists, this is one of very rare case where newer method - Percutanious Device closure - was adopted to correct the defect. The hole in the heart was cured with out surgery.

Lobsang Khedur, a 12-year-old boy was born with congenital (Arial Septal Defect) defect in the heart. Through Echo-Cardiograph a 22mm Atrium Secondum Arterial Septal Defect was confirmed. This defect is usually corrected by surgery. However, the surgical complications, anesthesia complications, psychological trauma of the parents and large scar resulting from the surgery made the parents to insist on an interventional procedure with out surgery.

The interventional cardiologists at KMC Heart Centre, Manipal, decided that the procedure -Percutanious Device Closure (with out an Open Heart Surgery) should be adopted. The whole Procedure took just one hour. The patient was able to walk normally the very next day. The boy is improving well and is going to be discharged.

The team of interventional cardiologists lead by Dr. Padma Kumar (Interventional Cardiologist), Dr Niranjan Garg, Dr Elsa Varghese (Cardiac Anesthetist) and the support staff with the support of Dr Arun V Kusugal (HOD Cardiology) at KMC Heart Centre successfully performed this procedure by passing an umbrella like device and thus closing the hole in the Heart.