Sky hospital conducts Device closure of RSOV I operation
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, September 23 2017:
SKY Hospital, Manipur, for the first time in North Eastern India, successfully performed a life saving procedure called “Device closure of RSOV I (Rupture Sinus Of Valsalva)”, of the heart on the September 10, conveyed a press release issued by PRO, Sky Hospital and Research Centre Pvt Ltd .
The procedure saved the life of a 21 years old college student M Yaiphaba from Jiribam district .
RSOV is a heart emergency, if not treated appropriately, is fatal in most cases.
It is a rare cardiac condition in which the proximal part of AORTA (the main great artery of the heart) called Sinus Of Valsalva ruptures into a chamber of the heart.
This causes sudden onset chest pain and breathlessness, resulting continuous flow of blood and acute volume overload on both left and right side of the heart chambers, which promptly results in heart failures .
The condition should be suspected in an adult (20- 40 years of age) , mostly males who experiences sudden onset chest pain, breathlessness,bounding pulse and a loud superficial continuous murmur with a thrill along either border of the breastbone (sternum) .
The disease cannot affect young pregnant women rarely, it added .
The RSOV can be accurately diagnosed with the help of Echocardiography or / and TEE or contrast aortography.
Once the diagnosis is established, the RSOV needs urgent open heart surgery, however, it can also be closed without surgery with a plug called device, made of alloy, called Nitinol wire mask .
The Device is inserted through femoral vessels in the groin under local anaesthesia under control of a high resolution Cath Lab machine and Echocardiography machine .
For M Yaiphaba, the procedure started at 1 pm and finished at around 3:15 pm.
His symptom which he described as “squeaking of a rat trapped in his heart” disappeared immediately after the procedure finished and the patient started talking and eating in just two hours after the completion of the procedure .
He was discharged on the third day after the operation as he was able to walk properly.
Chief Cardiologist and Chairman of SKY Hospital Dr L Shyamkishore stated that the device closure of RSOV is a safe and effective non-operative treatment option to open heart surgery and should be offered to patients with such disease.