NEW DELHI: A 57-year-old man from Nepal, who urgently wanted a liver transplant, underwent a non-surgical clip coronary heart valve restore in order that docs might do the transplant at Medanta Hospital, Gurgaon.
The affected person was affected by a Hepatitis C an infection since 2008. Once in 2011 after which in 2018, he developed gastrointestinal bleeding and decompensation with ascites. In May 2023, he once more got here to Medanta, with a extreme decompensated liver illness and wanted a transplant urgently.
Doctors came upon that he had a leakage in his coronary heart that was inflicting a discharge of liquid into his physique, resulting in liver injury. The affected person additionally had end-stage liver illness, and water had clogged his lungs and stomach. In such instances, sufferers often don’t survive.
So, the docs first determined to restore his coronary heart and cease the leak utilizing metallic clips. But his well being was so fragile that an open-cut surgical procedure was dangerous. The docs selected a non-surgical remedy referred to as tricuspid clipping.
This comparatively new process has the potential to enhance the lives of these affected by tricuspid regurgitation, when the valve’s flaps don’t shut correctly. Tricuspid clipping remedy doesn’t require the chest to be opened up, and restoration time is shorter. “The leak has been sealed now. We placed two clips in his heart,” stated Dr Praveen Chandra, chairman of the Interventional and Structural Heart Cardiology, Heart Institute at Medanta in Gurgaon.