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With an outpatient footfall of astir 600 patients each day, the Department of Cardiology astatine the Tamil Nadu Government Multi Super Speciality Hospital (TNGMSSH), Omandurar Government Estate is among the State’s busiest cardiac attraction centres successful the authorities sector.
In 10 years, the section has performed a full of 31,157 interventional procedures astatine its cardiac cath lab. This included coronary angiogram, coronary angioplasty, percutaneous transcatheter mitral valve commissurotomy, atrial septal defect (ASD) instrumentality closure, ventricular septal defect instrumentality closure, electrophysiological studies with arrhythmia ablation, imperishable pacemaker implantation, balloon aortic valvotomy, balloon pulmonary valvotomy, RSOV (ruptured sinus of valsalva) aneurysm instrumentality closure, transcatheter aortic valve replacement and implantable cardioverter defibrillator implantation and cardiac resynchronisation therapy with defibrillator.
“We get patients from assorted parts of the State and neighbouring places specified arsenic Puducherry. Many of them are referred to our centre. There are 2 ample wards for men and women. We person astir 100 beds, and the portion consistently runs astatine afloat capacity. There are 7 intensive attraction units with 60 beds,” J. Cecily Mary Majella, prof and head, Department of Cardiology, and elder interventional cardiologist, TNGMSSH, said.
The section has performed among the highest volumes of ASD instrumentality closures successful the authorities assemblage successful Tamil Nadu. Significantly, young women made up 290 of the 340 patients who underwent percutaneous ASD instrumentality closure, she said, adding: “This is simply a congenital bosom defect successful which determination is simply a spread betwixt the 2 atria. The percutaneous attack is particularly advantageous for young women, arsenic it avoids open-heart country and leaves nary scar connected the chest.”
She said that 2 different large highlights see the percutaneous instrumentality closure of a RSOV successful a 73-year-old man, who was the world’s oldest patient, and a treble RSOV instrumentality closure successful a 22-year-old man. The section has done 220 electrophysiological studies and ablation.
While Dr. Majella received an grant from the Asia Pacific Vascular Interventional Society for performing lifesaving interventions for “rarest of uncommon cases” earlier this year, the cardiology squad has published 2 important probe articles successful the European Heart Journal this month. The articles are “Comparative investigation of young acute coronary syndrome successful pre and station COVID pandemic” and “Ectatic coronary arteries - expanding trends station COVID-19 infection”. One nonfiction looks astatine myocardial infarctions successful the young aged beneath 45 years. Both the articles progressive a immense information of much than 10,000 patients documented from 2016 to 2023, Dr. Majella added.
She said that bosom attacks are connected the emergence successful some men and women. “It is advisable to acquisition aboriginal screening for humor pressure, humor sweetener and cholesterin levels, modify fare and lifestyle, and debar excessive stress. Heart attacks are mostly preventable and regular check-ups tin play a important relation successful prevention. There has been a surge successful bosom attacks among radical nether 45. There are galore cases of abrupt cardiac deaths. Therefore it is important to get basal investigations specified arsenic ECG, ECHO done, consult a cardiologist based connected the results, and spell for further wellness checks if necessary,” she said.
