Delhi docs give new lease of life to patient rare congenital heart defects
A team of surgeons at Safdarjung Hospital have performed a robotic systemic atrioventricular (AV) valve replacement in an adult patient with a rare combination of congenital heart defects, marking a major milestone in robotic cardiac surgery.
Hospital authorities claimed the surgery is the first reported case in medical literature in which a robotic system was adapted through a left-sided approach to replace a systemic AV valve in a patient with both congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries (ccTGA) and dextrocardia.
The minimally invasive procedure was carried out by the Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery (CTVS), led by Professor Dr Anubhav Gupta, on an adult patient diagnosed with ccTGA along with dextrocardia, according to a statement issued by the hosp...
