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Innovations in cardiac surgery

Body: Cardiac surgeries are always complex and involves great risk for the patients. The outcome of the surgery depends greatly on surgeon and his/her decisions. Normally cardiac surgery is performed on a temporarily stopped heart using a “Heart-Lung Bypass Machine” and once the surgery is performed the heart would be restarted and this method is called reperfusion. Reperfusion may leave some ill effects in the patients and also surgeon would have limited time to perform surgery. Where as in Beating heart surgery, surgeons perform surgery without stopping the heart by using a special devise to stabilize a part of the heart on which they are operating. The heart continues to beat and circulate blood to the heart muscle during the operation. Beating Heart Surgery is getting popular in India. Across the globe many surgeons feel it is complicated and require additional skills and in some cases the heart should be stopped to perform the surgery. But the benefits of this type of surgery like quality time available to perform the surgery with perfection & low risk for patients enthuse Dr. Satish Kini, Cardiac Surgeon at Vivus BMJ Heart Center to decide up on Beating heart surgery as many as possible. As per him most of the bypass surgeries are performed on beating heart. Surgery on heart valve is traditionally performed on the heart that is stopped temporarily, but at Vivus Heart Center, valve replacements & hole in the heart surgeries are performed while heart is beating.

Doctor Satish Kini, with his experience as a cardiac surgeon across the world, has recently performed the mitral valve replacement in a beating heart.

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