Rare heart surgery performed at Care
By a correspondent

A rare procedure to support a failing heart through a temporary artificial heart was performed recently by a team of cardiologists in Care Hospital at Hyderabad recently. The surgery is claimed to be the first of its kind in AP and was performed on a 45-year-old patient who had suffered a heart attack with severe myocardial damage. According to hospital sources, the device adopted, was used as a bridge to recovery on patients with reversible cause of cardiogenic shock. If the patients develop irreversible heart damage, requiring heart transplant, it serves as a bridge to heart transplant also, they confirmed. This vernacular assisted device is a pneumatically driven system for mechanical circulatory support in protracted heart failure. The particular device is kept outside the body of the patient (extra corporal) and can be used even on children. The patient can be put on the support of this device for a period of three to four months. With the current procedure it is assured that in the case of patients not responding to routine management, those with viral myocarditis and cardiogenic shock, those with cardiomyopathy with cardiogenic shock and the ones with post-cardiotomy and cardiogenic shock will all find it very useful.

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