The surgery has been conducted by a group of veterinary doctors in Delhi, the doctors claimed that this is the first time in India that such a surgery has been successfully conducted. New Delhi: In a first, a dog with a complex heart condition underwent a minimally invasive cardiac surgery. The surgery has been conducted by a group of veterinary doctors in Delhi, the doctors claimed that this is the first time in India that such a surgery has been successfully conducted.
The seven-year-old beagle, named Juliet was suffering from Mitral valve disease for over the last two years, reported PTI . Dr Bhanu Dev Sharma, an interventional cardiologist for small animals at Max PetZ Hospital in East of Kailash in the report explained, the condition is caused by degenerative alterations in mitral valves leaflets which result in backflow of blood within the left upper chamber of the heart failure in which the fluid builds-up in the lungs when the disease progresses. Surgeons performed surgery called ‘Hybrid surgery’ The doctors involved in the procedure, performed a Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair (TEER) process using a valve clamp on the dog on May 30.
The surgery is called ‘hybrid surgery’ as it is a combination of a microsurgery and an interventional method. According to Dr Sharma, the best part about this surgery is that it is a minimally invasive method since it is a beating heart procedure and is not like an open heart surgery which needs a heart-lung bypass machine. As p.
