Doctors from KLE Society’s Dr. Prabhakar Kore Hospital conduced a rare, life-saving open heart surgery on an 87 year old.
A team of doctors headed by cardiothoracic surgeon Richard Saldanha successfully carried out a Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (open heart surgery) on an 87-year-old patient recently.
The surgery was carried out on Rajashekhar Kalburgi. The team operated on him with three grafts. The patient recovered and was discharged within a week. “Operating on an octogenarian is a challenging task as the muscles, arteries, and bones all have become weak. It was a high-risk surgery in view of his old age and the vulnerable cardiac condition,’‘ the doctors said.
