Yashoda Hospitals holds workshop on MICS

Several surgeons, including Musumeci Francesco, eminent surgeon from Italy, attend

Hyderabad: A number of cardiac surgeons have now started evincing great interest in “minimally invasive cardiac surgeries” (MICS) during the last five years, according to Dr A G K Gokhale, a senior heart and lung transplant surgeon of Yashoda Heart Institute.

Even those, who once criticised “mitral valve minimal access surgery” had begun to embrace it,” Dr Gokhale said. “The minimally invasive procedure uses small incisions to access the heart without stopping the heart or cutting the breastbone and ribcage.” In just two weeks, patients could resume day-to-day activities and even return to their jobs, Dr Gokhale pointed out.

A two-day live international workshop on MICS under the aegis of Department of MICS, Yashoda Hospitals, began on Saturday at Yashoda Hospitals, Secunderabad. Nearly 125 eminent cardiologists from across India and abroad attended the workshop. Dr Musumeci Francesco, an internationally renowned cardiac surgeon and professor of minimally invasive and robotic surgery from Rome, Italy was also present.

After inaugurating the workshop Dr G S Rao, Managing Director, Yashoda Group of Hospitals, said the Yashoda Heart Institute earned the reputation of being a leader in heart care performing approximately 10,000 procedures annually. “We made great strides in cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery performing thousands of procedures and surgeries with precision and success,” Dr Rao added.

The annual workshop focused on training heart surgeons in aortic valve replacement through a small incision on the side of chest rather than a big incision on the chest. This procedure will enable a patient to recover faster and also with less pain. Two live cases of aortic valve replacements were performed using the minimal access approach on the first day of workshop.