Doctors at the Capital Hospitals in the city successfully performed a “high-risk” cardiac surgery on a 34-year-old woman who had been suffering from end-stage kidney disease and severe heart valve dysfunction.

According to the hospital management, the woman, a mathematics teacher at a primary school and a resident of Vuyyuru in Krishna district, had been battling chronic kidney disease with end-stage renal failure and was dependent on dialysis twice a week.

When she was being evaluated for renal transplantation, she was diagnosed with Mitral Valve Regurgitation, a serious cardiac condition, making it dangerous for performing the transplantation without correcting the cardiac problem first.

Cardiac surgies in dialysis patients carry a significant risk, due to fluid balance instability, metabolic disturbances, bleeding tendency, infection risk, postoperative cardiac complications. Considering these, a multidisciplinary team operated on the patient, first performing the Mitral Valve Replacement.

Post the surgery, the patient was monitored for a while and she has now been discharged.