Mysore/Mysuru: Cauvery Heart and Multi-Speciality Hospital, Siddarthanagar, Mysuru, has successfully treated a heart patient from Yemen. Mohammed Hussein Ahmed, aged 58, was having cardiac problem from many years and had undergone stenting a few years back. From the past one year he was having severe breathing difficulty, swelling of legs and was not able to sleep or walk.
Addressing a press meet in city recently, Dr. S.C. Madhuprakash, Chief Cardiac Surgeon, said: “When the patient came to us he was suffering from heart failure with low cardiac function. He was brought to us by another Yemen patient on whom we had operated 3 years back. When we evaluated him, he had blocks in the stent and also the two valves were leaking badly, with poor heart function. He was requiring two bypasses, one valve replacement and another valve repair.”
