Imphal Heart Institute has finally put Manipur in TAVI map of the country.
Mayanglambam Merina
Two Manipuri doctors succeeded in conducting the first-ever procedure called TAVI in North East India had been successfully performed at Imphal Heart Institute, Sagolband Moirang on 7th August 2019 at Imphal Heart Institute has finally put Manipur in TAVI map of the country.
Dr.Arambam.Athouba Singh,MS,M.Ch (Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery, Mumbai), Chief Cardiac Surgeon, Imphal Heart Institute and Dr.Khumuckcham.Jelen who with his 15 years of experience in interventional cardiology made the State proud by such a heroic action.
While talking to the media personals they expressed that the procedure basically is replacement of damaged, non-functioning aortic valve inside the beating human heart by artificial functioning valve without surgical opening of the heart.
Dr.Khumuckcham. Jelen stated that “usually the procedure takes 1 and ½ hr to 3 hrs and patients are discharged in 4-5 days. The procedure is lifesaving boon to many patients with high risk for surgery “.
The patient who went through this surgery is a 65 years old lady who had only two valves since her birth.
Such condition is called the bicuspid aortic valve with severe narrowing of the valve. This time the patient is none other than the mother of a doctor who after knowing all the pros and cons volunteered his mother for it
Dr.Khumuckcham.Jelen an ex-consultant at Apollo Hospitals expressed that the patient had just two leaflets instead of three which is in normal cases.
These cases were initially excluded from TAVIbecause of the high complexity of the procedure. It is only recently that TAVI was extended to such cases.
Dr.Khumanthem Ratan, Managing Director, Imphal Heart Institute expressed that such successful TAVI in the bicuspid case is first of its kind in the whole of Eastern India as well as in North East India and also the first TAVI in the bicuspid aortic valve in the whole Eastern India.
The institute has conducted more than 100 successful Open-Heart Surgeries within a very short span.
It could be mentioned that it is worth noting that out of some odd 1400 cath labs all over the country,
TAVI is performed in only 30 odd cath labs. PGIMER, Chandigarh had reported doing their first 2 cases just recently on August 12th August of this month.
Imphal Heart Institute is dedicated Cardiac Care Hospital in the premises of Mother’s Care Hospital & Research Centre which caters to adult as well as pediatric patients.
Dr.Arambam. Athouba Singh,MS,M.Ch (Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery, Mumbai), Chief Cardiac Surgeon, Imphal Heart Institute who has 9 years of experience in this field opined that such team efforts made them confident enough for the coming future. It is also because of the trust of the patient’s family.
The cost of such cases outside Manipur has a price ranging from 30 lakhs. But it’s half of the amount in the parent state, and now doing such cases has slowly become cost-effective, lessening the financial, emotional and physical hardships of the patients and their family members remained the core priorities
