Four minimum invasive surgeries performed

All patients are stable without any complications, say CPEIC doctors

MULTAN:

A team of doctors of Chaudhary Pervaiz Elahi Institute of Cardiology (CPEIC) successfully conducted the first-ever Minimum Invasive Surgey (MIS) in Punjab of four patients.

CPEIC Executive Director (ED) Dr Rana Altaf Ahmad told APP on Sunday that experts from National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD) trained the health facility team during a two-day workshop.

The executive director said Dr Pervaiz Chaudhry of NICVD, Karachi along with his team trained CPEIC medics, adding that assistant professor of cardiac surgery Dr Yasir Khakwani and his team conducted surgery for complicated heart diseases without opening the chests of the patients through MIS.

The CPEIC will start the MIS within two months on a regular basis, the ED stated. Four patients were operated for AVR, MVR and ASD, he further said. “All patients are stable without any complications.”

The patients benefit after surgery through very small incision and can be mobilised fast without any pain, while in classical operation, incision is on sternum and healing takes a long time, he elaborated. “However, with MIS, the surgery incision was on one side, that too a few centimetres long.”

The patients’ pain is lesser and they can be discharged earlier through this procedure, he maintained. “The procedure is also less expensive as the hospital stay is shorter compared with the traditional method.

CPEIC will lead in this new technique and start MIS soon by its own teams of surgeons.”

 

Published in The Express Tribune, October 5^th, 2020.