Doctors at Delhi government-run GB pant Hospital conducted a rare surgery to save a 38 year old women.The patient, a Ghaziabad resident, weighing just around 40 kg, came to the hospital with severe breathing difficulty.One valve on the left side of her heart had shrunk. This was not allowing forward flow of blood.Cardiologists then did an assessment and they tried to access through a large neck vein but that was also not possible due to anatomical issue.Then a team of doctors decided to reach the heart through a vein in the liver.This was the first time in the world that balloon dilatation of the left side of a patient’s heart valve was done through the live route.The full procedure was done without a single stitch, with the patient being conscious.
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