Capital Hospital performs high-risk cardiac surgery on dialysis patient in Vijayawada
Capital Hospitals in Vijayawada successfully conducted a high-risk cardiac surgery on a 34-year-old woman with end-stage kidney disease. The patient, who was also suffering from severe heart valve dysfunction, required the surgery before she could be evaluated for renal transplantation. After the surgery, she was monitored and has since been discharged from the hospital.
- ▪The patient had been dependent on dialysis twice a week due to chronic kidney disease.
- ▪She was diagnosed with Mitral Valve Regurgitation, complicating her potential renal transplantation.
- ▪A multidisciplinary team performed the Mitral Valve Replacement surgery before her discharge.
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Doctors at the Capital Hospitals in the city successfully performed a “high-risk” cardiac surgery on a 34-year-old woman who had been suffering from end-stage kidney disease and severe heart valve dysfunction.According to the hospital management, the woman, a mathematics teacher at a primary school and a resident of Vuyyuru in Krishna district, had been battling chronic kidney disease with end-stage renal failure and was dependent on dialysis twice a week.When she was being evaluated for renal transplantation, she was diagnosed with Mitral Valve Regurgitation, a serious cardiac condition, making it dangerous for performing the transplantation without correcting the cardiac problem first.Cardiac surgies in dialysis patients carry a significant risk, due to fluid balance instability,…
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