A team of doctors led by surgeon Ramakant Panda and assisted by AIIMS doctors on Saturday successfully performed a redo (repeat)bypass operation on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh — the 76-year-old leader who is the Congress candidate for a second-term prime ministership in the event of a UPA victory in the polls.
“PM’s surgery was successful. He was shifted to Intensive Cardiac Care Unit at 8.55 PM,“ PMO spokesperson Deepak Sandhu told media. "Everything has gone off well and he will be kept in the Intensive Cardiac Care Unit for 48 hours for observation," Dr Sudhir Vaishnav, Cardio-vascular thoracic surgeon with Asian Heart Institute (AHI), Mumbai, said. He said the doctors led by Dr Rama Kant Panda performed "sequential grafting" on the Prime Minister. A PMO official said Singh was on ventilator and was expected to regain consciousness sometime tomorrow. He is likely to be in the AIIMS for next eight days. "His condition remained stable during the surgery and utmost care was being taken to prevent any bleeding because of the stitching," Dr Sudhir Vaishnav said.
The coronary artery bypass surgery included replacement of older grafts performed on the Prime Minister in 1990 in the UK, doctors said. Pranab Mukherjee told media, “Doctors are confident that Prime Minister is recovering well after surgery.” Congress spokesman Veerappa Moily told reporters, “We are extremely thankful to the doctors who performed the bypass surgery upon the Prime Minister. The whole nation is praying for him.” "Prime Minister was wheeled into the operation theatre at 5:30am. The operation finally began at 7:15am," said Dr Sudhir Vaishnav. According to doctors, tests have shown that the Prime Minister has three arteries blocked. This includes two grafts done during his bypass surgery in 1990 in UK and a stenting done in 2004 at Escorts.
The PM checked in at AIIMS on Friday early afternoon. He was admitted in a special room on the first floor that is kept ready 24x7 exclusively for the Indian PM. Dr Panda is a redo bypass surgery specialist who is credited with having conducted over 700 redo surgeries. Earlier, asked to assess the risk factor in Saturday's surgery, doctors who are on the surgery team told TOI: "This is a major heart surgery. All surgical procedures are risky, especially when repeated. But in this case, the risks are minimal because of three factors - the overall health status of the patient, the type of surgery being conducted and the expertise of the team operating on the PM."
Dr Panda was assisted by a joint team of seven doctors from Asian Heart Institute (Mumbai) and AIIMS. A state-of-the-art procedure — beating heart bypass surgery — which carries a lower risk of tissue damage, was performed on the PM. The doctors added: "The long term results are better in a bypass rather than angioplasty. That's why we decided to conduct a repeat bypass on the PM. Singh has multiple blockages and since he is a diabetic, the chances of fresh stents getting blocked faster are greater." Some other cardiac experts in the city, however, differed. They maintained that angioplasty was a safer option, although they added that the eventual decision has to be taken after studying the patient's medical reports.
“PM’s surgery was successful. He was shifted to Intensive Cardiac Care Unit at 8.55 PM,“ PMO spokesperson Deepak Sandhu told media. "Everything has gone off well and he will be kept in the Intensive Cardiac Care Unit for 48 hours for observation," Dr Sudhir Vaishnav, Cardio-vascular thoracic surgeon with Asian Heart Institute (AHI), Mumbai, said. He said the doctors led by Dr Rama Kant Panda performed "sequential grafting" on the Prime Minister. A PMO official said Singh was on ventilator and was expected to regain consciousness sometime tomorrow. He is likely to be in the AIIMS for next eight days. "His condition remained stable during the surgery and utmost care was being taken to prevent any bleeding because of the stitching," Dr Sudhir Vaishnav said.
The coronary artery bypass surgery included replacement of older grafts performed on the Prime Minister in 1990 in the UK, doctors said. Pranab Mukherjee told media, “Doctors are confident that Prime Minister is recovering well after surgery.” Congress spokesman Veerappa Moily told reporters, “We are extremely thankful to the doctors who performed the bypass surgery upon the Prime Minister. The whole nation is praying for him.” "Prime Minister was wheeled into the operation theatre at 5:30am. The operation finally began at 7:15am," said Dr Sudhir Vaishnav. According to doctors, tests have shown that the Prime Minister has three arteries blocked. This includes two grafts done during his bypass surgery in 1990 in UK and a stenting done in 2004 at Escorts.
The PM checked in at AIIMS on Friday early afternoon. He was admitted in a special room on the first floor that is kept ready 24x7 exclusively for the Indian PM. Dr Panda is a redo bypass surgery specialist who is credited with having conducted over 700 redo surgeries. Earlier, asked to assess the risk factor in Saturday's surgery, doctors who are on the surgery team told TOI: "This is a major heart surgery. All surgical procedures are risky, especially when repeated. But in this case, the risks are minimal because of three factors - the overall health status of the patient, the type of surgery being conducted and the expertise of the team operating on the PM."
Dr Panda was assisted by a joint team of seven doctors from Asian Heart Institute (Mumbai) and AIIMS. A state-of-the-art procedure — beating heart bypass surgery — which carries a lower risk of tissue damage, was performed on the PM. The doctors added: "The long term results are better in a bypass rather than angioplasty. That's why we decided to conduct a repeat bypass on the PM. Singh has multiple blockages and since he is a diabetic, the chances of fresh stents getting blocked faster are greater." Some other cardiac experts in the city, however, differed. They maintained that angioplasty was a safer option, although they added that the eventual decision has to be taken after studying the patient's medical reports.
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