Apollo Hospitals Successfully Implants the First World’s Largest Artificial Pulmonary Valve without surgery on a 61 year old lady
Chennai : Apollo Hospitals, Asia’s largest and most trusted multi-specialty chain of hospitals, successfully completed implanting the first World’s Largest Pulmonary Valve (32mm) without surgery in Chennai on a 61 year old patient early on 15th September 2020. From Left to Right: Dr. Muthafa Janeel, Peditric Cardiac Surgeon, Dr. CS. Muthukumaran Structural Interventional Cardiologist, Patient, Dr. Sengottuvelu Senior Consultant Interventional Cardiologist, Dr. Neville Solomon Senior Consultant, Cardiac Surgeon Mrs. Shakthi (name changed), 61 had undergone a total surgical correction in 1981 for a very rare condition called Tetralogy of Fallot. This is a condition caused by a combination of four heart defects that are present at birth (congenital). These defects, which affect the structure of the heart, cause oxygen-poor blood to flow out of the heart and to the rest of the body. She was doing fine, until the Pulmonary valve (the valve to the lung) developed leak grad...
