Patient travels from Australia to Dubai to have key hole heart surgery
- 01 Jun 2021
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Dr Madhav a 55 year old Australian National travelled from Sydney Australia to Dr Sulaiman Al Habib Hospital, Dubai; to have his multiple arterial grafting Heart Bypass Surgery done via the Key Hole technique on a beating heart.
He stated further, that Australia is considered one of the top countries in the world for heart bypass surgery and he could have had his heart bypass surgery done free by the standard open Heart technique with a big cut on the sternal bone.
In Australia, Minimally Invasive Heart Bypass Surgery is only available for single-vessel and not multiple-vessels Coronary artery disease, as in the case of Dr Madhav and hence he travelled to Dubai, to be operated on by Dr P.Nambiar a world renowned Cardiac Surgeon whose expertise is key hole beating heart total arterial multivessel heart bypass.
Dr Madhav had severe Coronary artery disease, heart function of 25% due to a massive heart attack in January 2020 and was grossly diabetic. He had his Minimally invasive ,off pump beating heart, multivessel , total arterial grafting using bilateral mammary arteries via a 3 inch incision on the left side of the chest and was discharged from the hospital on the 3rd Post-Operative day.Prior to discharge he was able to climb two flights of steps with ease.
Dr Nambiar who is a Canadian Board Certified Cardiac Surgeon and a Cardiac Surgeon with the world famous Cleveland Clinic Heart Center, Ohio, USA in the past, had this to say. Working at Dr Sulaiman Al habib Hospital Dubai
I am elated that Dr Madhav flew in from Australia and especially to Dr Sulaiman Al Habib Hospital – Dubai to have his Heart Bypass surgery. At present we are the only center in the UAE carrying out multi vessel Minimally invasive heart — bypass surgeries.
Further, I have been carrying out Key Hole Beating Heart Bypass surgeries since 2011 in USA, India & Dubai and have operated on more than 1000 patients successfully via this technique. These series of cases have been published in leading international scientific journals. This type of unique cardiac surgeries help Dubai to be a leading Medical Tourism Destination even during the pandemic.
Conventional Heart Key Hole Heart Bypass
The future of heart bypass surgery is in Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery using arterial grafts because of its tremendous advantages like
1.Small incision and hence less stress on the body
2. Quick mobility of patient, reduced length of stay and early discharge ( 3-4 days)
3. Arterial Heart bypass grafting, guaranteeing excellent long term patency, survival and prognosis.
4. Minimal pain
5. Back to complete physical l activity in two weeks
6. No usage / minimal usage of blood / blood products
7. Back to total activity including driving, office work in 10- 14 days.