India, Aug. 18 -- By Shalini Bhardwaj

New Delhi [India], August 18 (ANI): Doctors at a private hospital in Delhi have reported a rare medical achievement after successfully treating three potentially life-threatening conditions in a 64-year-old man during a single operation.

The multidisciplinary team at Fortis Escorts Hospital, Okhla, repaired a dangerous tear in the patient's aorta, treated a severely leaking aortic valve and removed a cancerous tumour from his left kidney during the same hospital stay.

According to the doctors, performing complex open-heart and aortic surgery together with robot-assisted kidney cancer surgery in a single operation has not previously been reported in the available medical literature, making the case ...