CHENNAI: A 65-year-old man from Iraq man was saved after a Robotic Assisted Double Valve Replacement Heart surgery was performed on him at the Chettinad Health City. Dr R Ravi Kumar, Director, Institute of Cardio Vascular Disease, Chettinad Health City, said, “Robotic-assisted Cardiac surgery was introduced in the year 2000 in the US and was a novel change in medical therapy.” The first mitral valve replacement using robotic assistance was done by Dr Ravi Kumar in India in 2006 and the replacement of aortic valve was successfully done at Chettinad Health City in December 2007. A team of doctors led by him, assisted by a high precision robot, on September 21, successfully performed the operation of combined mitral valve replacement and coronary artery bypass surgery on the same patient. “The patient had mitral stenosis (shrinkage of the mitral valve ) and coronary artery disease (blockage of the blood vessel that supplies the heart muscle).” “The art of using robotic surgery was never attempted for double valve replacement till February 2011, when the world’s first robotic-assisted double valve heart replacement was done here.Combination of heart valve along with bypass surgery has not been successfully done. The patient had been suffering from shortness of breath and weakness for the past 11 years. He has had a balloon mitral valvotomy surgery for mitral stenosis about seven years ago. Now, there was a recurrence of the stenosis and he also had blocked coronary arteries. This was the reason for his symptoms.
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