The doctors have made a major breakthrough in the cardiac treatment for the patients suffering from aortic valve dysfunction. While attending an advanced course in clinical cardiology which was conducted in collaboration with Yashoda Hospital, Hyderabad and Cleveland Clinic, USA, the group of doctors revealed that the main aortic valve can now be replaced without surgery and in a few months the technology will be available in India.
This new advancement in cardiac treatment will be particularly beneficial for patients for whom surgery is risky. It is estimated that in India at least 4 per cent population suffers from narrowing of the aortic valve.
In a forecast survey it is said that by the year 2015, there would be 50 million people in India with cardiac disease. Heart ailments were taking epidemic proportions in the country.
Dr Samir Kapadia from Cleveland Clinic said there had been significant advancement in cardiac technology. Imaging technology too had made rapid advancement in assessing the heart’s function non-invasive and patient-specific therapy had also evolved.
While the mitral valve repair without surgery is in its clinical trial stage, replacement of the aortic valve without surgery has started in the US and in the next six months the technology will be available in India.
Explaining about the merits, a senior cardiologist Dr Mandeep Bhargava said, “This transcather aortic valve replacement scores over conventional methods as older patients do not have to withstand the risk of surgical intervention.”
The main cause of the aortic valve dysfunction in patients is mainly due to calcium deposits. The biventricular pacemakers could be placed in certain patients to increase the efficiency of the heart for end-stage heart failures, revealed another doctor from Cleveland Clinic.
Source:Pharmabiz
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