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(ANSA) – TAORMINA, MAY 29 – A life-saving operation was carried out on the San Vincenzo hospital in Taormina on a sixty-year-old in severe cardiovascular situations affected by Tetralogy of Fallot, carrying a pacemaker and already present process quite a few cardiac surgical procedures. The person’s superior diploma of coronary heart failure was brought on by the malfunction of the prosthetic valve implanted about 15 years earlier within the lung. The affected person’s situation – which didn’t permit him to bear open coronary heart surgical procedure in extracorporeal circulation – made it essential to resort to an modern approach which consists within the endoscopic positioning of a pulmonary valve prosthesis contained in the earlier one. The ‘valve in valve’ operation was efficiently carried out by Paolo Guccione, head of Pediatric Cardiology, in collaboration with Giuseppe Cinnirella, head of Hemodynamics and Enrico Iannace, head of Anesthesia and resuscitation.
“The chance – states Guccione – of a process after which one can return dwelling in 2-3 days is a vital outcome when it comes to the affected person’s expertise as he’s subjected to much less bodily and psychological stress in comparison with a surgical process. open coronary heart. This additionally represents a bonus for the Nationwide Well being Service linked to a decrease dedication of assets”. (HANDLE).
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