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Yashoda doctors perform rare angioplasty
Doctors at Yashoda hospital successfully performed a rare angioplasty using Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenator (ECMO) that saved a doctor’s life. An orthopedic surgeon Dr Vishwanath Jadav, 63, of Udgir, Maharashtra, was brought to the hospital with the complaints of severe chest discomfort and breathlessness.
Hyderabad: Doctors at Yashoda hospital successfully performed a rare angioplasty using Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenator (ECMO) that saved a doctor’s life. An orthopedic surgeon Dr Vishwanath Jadav, 63, of Udgir, Maharashtra, was brought to the hospital with the complaints of severe chest discomfort and breathlessness.
On diagnosing, he was found to have a very poor heart function with an ejection fraction (a measure of heart pumping efficiency) of 10 to 15 per cent only. An emergency coronary angiogram revealed critical 95 to 99 per cent blocks in the left main artery as well as the right coronary artery. In view of, his very poor heart function surgery or any form of intervention would have been extremely risky with high probability of table mortality.
The team of cardiologists at the hospital took the decision to perform ECMO-assisted angioplasty. Dr V Rajasekhar, Senior Cardiologist said, “ECMO works a like a heart and lung machine which supports the patients circulation for a short period of time even if the heart and lung stop working. ECMO system was set up and the patient was connected to it without anesthesia.
Angioplasty with three stent placement for both left and right sided blocks was rapidly accomplished.”After 24 hours the patient’s ejection fraction improved to 35- 40 per cent and he actually walked out of the hospital, he said.
