By Shalini Bhardwaj
New Delhi, Aug. 10 -- e doctors at a private hospital in the national capital successfully treated a 70-year-old male patient, with fungal endocarditis, a rare condition in which fungus had developed in the heart's aortic valve, said the hospital officials said on Tuesday.
The team of doctors, led by Dr Udgeath Dhir, Director and Head of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery (CTVS), Fortis Hospital, managed the case and through a complex surgery, successfully extracted the 6 cm-long fungal ball from the patient's heart valve.
This is a very rare case, sometimes found in cardiac surgery patients worldwide and the chances of survival are only 50 per cent.
The patient had undergone an aortic valve replacement in 2017 and ...