PANJIM, JULY 10
When well-known heart surgeon Dr Vivek Jawali from Fortis Hospitals saw 20-year-old Thomson Minguel Baptista, who had a bleeding heart, during one of his consultations in Margao he decided to take him to Bangalore for treatment.
Dr Jawali, who is the Chief Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeon at Fortis Hospitals, and his team of cardiac specialists turned saviour for the youth conducting a successful operation giving him a new lease of life thus allowing him to live free of medication that he used to pop earlier.
Thomson was seriously ill and had developed an infection in the heart which is medically called as bacterial endocarditis (inflammation of the inner layer of the heart involving the valves). His condition was managed in one of the local hospitals in Margao where he was on intravenous antibiotics.
The infection led to leakage in the aortic valve (one of the valves of the heart that lies between the left ventricle and the aorta) along with a development of a purulent inflammatory mass containing pus on it. In addition to this, he had developed an abscess by the side of the aortic valve destroying the elastic fibres in the wall of the aortic root causing aneurysm (bubble like dilation), one of the sinuses of the aortic root and a deep abscess burrowing in the inter-ventricular septum.
Addressing a press conference in the city on Saturday Dr Jawali said, “After a detailed evaluation we decided to go ahead with a complex surgery to do a novel repair of the aortic thus avoiding replacement and subsequent permanent implantation of foreign material in the youth’s heart.”
The heart surgeon and his team repaired the youth’s aneurismal sinus using his own heart tissue (pericardium). The abscess was removed and the cavity was repaired.
Thomson made a swift recovery and is leading a normal life without any foreign prosthetic material inside his heart. Dr Jawali swears by his surgery, “Thomson will now lead a normal life without being dependant on any medication.”
