Mysore :
Narayana Multispeciality Hospital Mysore today announced the launch of Mysore’s first dedicated ‘Heart Valve Clinic’ that will offer advanced care for repair of the diseased valve. The advanced technology along with a team of senior cardiac experts will ensure early accurate diagnosis and treatment to patients suffering from heart related disorders.
The city has witnessed a steady rise in heart valve disease cases and unfortunately there are a high percentage of children also suffering from such conditions. This created a critical need for a specialised clinic that can perform specialised surgeries and procedures to address the growing disease burden and provide accurate screening and treatment planning. Valve diseases can be congenital or could happen due to infections or degenerative at a later stage in life. Rheumatic heart disease with valvular stenosis or leaks in the young and adult age groups, myxomatous valve disease in the adult women with minimal discomfort (asymptomatic MR) and elderly with degenerative valve disease are common in the area.
Speaking about the launch of the clinic, Dr. M.N Ravi – Senior Cardiac Surgeon at Narayana Multispeciality Hospital Mysore said, “According to data, 2 – 4% of school going children in the rural areas of Mysore suffer from rheumatic heart disease. In most cases, patients develop heart valve disease during childhood but often due to poor awareness the disease goes undiagnosed till it reaches advanced stage. With timely and accurate diagnosis and advanced surgical techniques we can effectively perform complex repair on patients who were considered inoperable.”
The clinic will provide outpatient support for all non-emergency patients with free consultation from Cardiac Surgeon and free investigations like ECG, ECHO scan.
Commenting on the launch of the Heart Valve Clinic, K.S. Dattatreya, Director of the hospital said, “Narayana Multispeciality Hospital Mysore is considered as a centre of excellence to treat heart valve disorders. Our goal is to set-up a speciality clinic that offers high quality care to patients suffering from any kind of valve disease to bring down the mortality rate and disease burden in and around Mysore.”
The Department of Cardiac Science specialises in all streams of cardiac treatments and deals with complex heart problems.
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / September 10th, 2014