Complex heart surgery saves 49-year-old woman with collapsed aorta in Hyderabad

Doctors at KIMS Hospital, Kondapur successfully performed a six-hour open-heart surgery on a 49-year-old woman whose aorta had collapsed, causing severe strain on her heart. Surgeons removed the swollen aorta and damaged valve, replacing them with an artificial aorta and prosthetic valve.

Hyderabad: Doctors at KIMS Hospital, Kondapur performed a high-risk, six-hour open-heart surgery to save the life of a 49-year-old woman, whose major heart artery was dangerously swollen, a press release said.

The patient’s aorta, which is the main artery carrying blood from the heart to the rest of the body, had completely collapsed. As a result, the blood that should have flowed to the body was instead leaking backward into the heart, causing extreme pressure on the heart chambers leading to enlargement and strain, doctors said.

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The surgeons removed the severely swollen aorta and the damaged aortic valve, replacing them with an artificial aorta and prosthetic valve in a procedure medically known as the Modified Bentall Procedure. The surgery lasted about six hours, and the patient recovered faster than expected, Chief Cardiac Surgeon, Dr. Nisarga said.