Hyderabad: Doctors perform complex bypass Surgery using ‘IMPELLA’ CP device

Hyderabad: Doctors at Care Hospitals in the city used an Impella device, known as the world’s smallest heart pump, while performing a complex heart bypass surgery on a high-risk patient recently. A 70-year-old Venkata Krishna from Tamil Nadu was admitted to the hospital with severe myocardial dysfunction with EF of 23 per cent, a critical […]

Hyderabad: Doctors at Care Hospitals in the city used an Impella device, known as the world’s smallest heart pump, while performing a complex heart bypass surgery on a high-risk patient recently.

A 70-year-old Venkata Krishna from Tamil Nadu was admitted to the hospital with severe myocardial dysfunction with EF of 23 per cent, a critical heart artery anatomy, and multiple blocks where stenting was not possible. The case presented the experts with a unique cardiac surgical case.

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Chief of the CT Surgery Department, Dr. Rama Subramanyam said: “the bypass surgery was performed with a higher version of mechanical circulatory support called Impella. This revolutionary technique is very useful in heart bypass surgeries where the device is introduced through the skin via the artery in the lower limb into the main chamber of the heart i.e., the Left Ventricle (LV). The blood from LV is sucked and delivered into the aorta which is the main artery that carries blood to the rest of the body providing blood supply to the required organs.”

The use of the new technique Impella CP assisted the post-operative course for three days and then was gradually weaned and explanted.

“This made the high-risk CABG relatively risk-free for the patient, doctors, nurses, and most importantly for the family members,” Dr. Subramanyam added.

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