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Belagavi doctors perform rare heart surgery to save pregnant woman

Doctors at the Belagavi-based Arihant Hospital saved the life of a seven-month pregnant woman by conducting a complicated heart surgery.

The triple bypass or Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG) surgery on the 36-year-old woman saved her life. The hospital has said that this is the first such recorded case in the world.

A team led by Chief Cardiac Surgeon M.D. Dixit conducted the total arterial triple vessel coronary bypass surgery on the woman who was in the final trimester of pregnancy.

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