Doctors in a Hubballi hospital have given a new lease of life to a 64-year-old woman by successfully installing an artificial stent-based valve over the native aortic valve.
Addressing presspersons in Hubballi on Wednesday, cardiac surgeon Vijaykrishna Kolur of Vihaan Heart and Super Speciality Hospital said that a team of doctors led by himself and Rishabh Parekh has successfully performed TAVI (Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation) on the woman who also has other health issues.
Dr. Kolur said that the woman underwent Radiotherapy and Chemotherapy for breast cancer in 1996 and is a known case of left hemiplegial and hypothyroidism. She approached them with episodes of giddiness and dyspnea (shortness of breath).
