Hyderabad: A team of cardiology experts from Kims Hospital performed India’s first Transcatheter Aortic Value Replacement surgery on a patient who underwent a failed-valve surgery in the past. The team comprising of Dr R.K. Jain, director and HoD of Cardiology at Kims and Dr T.N.C. Padmanabhan, senior interventional cardiologist, along with other experts have successfully performed the surgical procedure on a 69-year-old patient Geeta Agarwal is from Maharashtra.
Dr R.K. Jain said, “On examining the patient’s condition, it was reported that she was suffering from severe blockage of an aortic valve. Redoing open heart surgery was laced with high risk, hence the team decided on the alternative method of replacing the diseased valve through groin vessel without the need for a high risk open heart surgery.”
