Pune, May 21 -- Cardiologists at Manipal Hospital Baner successfully treated a 72-year-old male patient suffering from severe heart valve dysfunction using a minimally invasive transcatheter mitral valve-in-valve replacement procedure. The patient had undergone mitral valve replacement in 2014 using a bioprosthetic valve, which had deteriorated over time, leading to serious heart-related complications.
The patient presented with progressively worsening breathlessness over the last six months, which initially occurred during exertion and later progressed to breathlessness even at rest. He also experienced episodes of sudden breathlessness at night and had multiple hospital admissions for heart failure.
On evaluation, doctors found that the...