Apollo Hospitals Successfully Completes A Transfemoral Pulmonary Valve Implantation With An Indian Made Valve
Apollo Hospitals Successfully Completes A Transfemoral Pulmonary Valve Implantation With An Indian Made Valve For The First Time In India Chennai 9 th April 2019 : Apollo Hospitals, Asia ’s largest and most trusted multi-specialty chain of hospitals became the first centre in India to successfully perform a Transfemoral Pulmonary Valve Implantation [ a procedure performed by catheter insertion through a large vein in the groin (Femoral vein), called the transfemoral approach, which does not require a surgical incision in the chest ] using an Indian made Valve. A 26 year old female patient presented to us with symptoms of breathlessness. She was diagnosed to have Tetralogy of fallot (heart condition where there is a large hole in the heart and obstruction to the lung tube). The patient had undergone couple of surgeries in at her young age for surgical corrections of the condition andIn 2009 she had surgical valve replacement following which she developed infective en...
