Mangalore: Indiana Hospital ventures Rare surgery for first time in India

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Bellevision Media Network

Mangalore, 24 Oct 2013: For the first time in India the team of doctors of Indiana Hospital, Mangalore headed by Dr Nisarga performed an awake open heart surgery for the patient of Bombay blood group on October 11, said Dr Yousuf Kumble, the managing director and chief cardiologist of Indianan Hospital.

 
Addressing the media persons during the press meet here on Thursday October 24, Dr Yousuf said, ‘The patient thirty-six-year-old  Rukmini, hailing from Sakleshpur was diagnosed to have a congenital heart disease. After the assessment the chief consultant cardiac surgeon DrNisarga decided to do ‘Awake Cardiac Surgery’ on her view of bad lung condition.

 
The patient’s blood investigations revealed that she had a very rare blood group which is called Bombay blood group. There are only 179 cases reported in the world to have this rare blood group.

 

After an extensive search across the country a donor was identified in Mangalore with this blood group who agreed to donate the blood.   Then the team headed by Dr Nisarga was able to perform the open heart surgery when the person was awake and was done at free of cost under state government  Vajapeyi Arogya  Health Scheme,’ said Dr Yousuf.

 
Speaking about the surgery Dr Nisarga said that the surgery lasted for about 5 hours. The patient was awake and conscious during the heart surgery. Her heart was cut open to correct the problem and her breathing was stopped for about four hours, still she was awake, having no pain.

 
Although the blood was arranged, surgery was conducted successfully without any blood transfusion and a standby blood was required to avoid any issues during the course of the surgery which went on for five hours.

 
The un-used blood unit will be stored in the Blood-freezing center in Mumbai and he asked everyone with O positive blood group to visit any major blood bank in the city and confirm the blood group.