KOCHI: In a surgery lasting nearly seven hours, a team led by heart surgeon Dr M. K. Moosa Kunhi here has successfully removed blood clot of a lemon size in heart’s main chamber and four other blocks of a 45-year-old man after making his heart motionless with the support of heart lung machine. The patient, Muhammed Ibrahim M., a native of Manjweswaram in Kasaragod district, is fast recovering at VPS Lakeshore Hospital here and will be discharged within a few days.
Muhammed Ibrahim, who was working in Saudi Arabia, was admitted into a hospital there after he suffered a heart attack. He was later brought to a hospital in Mangalore where angiogram revealed the blocks. He was then referred to Dr Moosa Kunhi. “A blood clot inside the heart can break away from the heart at any time and move straight into the brain. This can make him a lifetime coma patient. Moreover developing blood clot to the size of a lemon inside the heart is a very rare complication,” said Dr Moosa Kunhi.
The blood clot was completely removed in the operation and four bypass operations were also done. The opened part was stitched together by using a ‘teflon felt’. He added that medical studies and medical experts have proved that removing of blood clot is the best way for treating such a situation.
