The cardiothoracic surgeon of Hospital Auxilio Mutuo, Dr. Orlando López de Victoria, together with a team of health professionals, salvaged the life of a patient with valvular endocarditis who did not possess the necessary criteria to intervene with an open surgery.
Belinda Z. Burgos
Agencia Latina de Noticias Medicina y Salud Pública
The cardiothoracic surgeon of Hospital Auxilio Mutuo, Dr. Orlando López de Victoria, together with a team of health professionals, salvaged the life of a patient with valvular endocarditis who did not possess the necessary criteria to intervene with an open surgery.
The endocarditis is treated by the inflammation of the interior of the valvules and cardiac chambers, which form the endocardium. In general, this inflammation is caused by an infection of bacterial origin.
The patient of 69 years who for many years received medial dialysis catheterized by his renal failure, precisely what he predisposes to recurrent manner of infections. She received various amputations of the dedications of the pies to be breathless with nurses like diabetes and hypertension and padding of a ulcer on the right side that does not heal, explained in this medium López de Victoria.
In addition, since the month of November, the male fever fever, scallop fever, but for the month of December admitted debit to the throat of an 8-centimeter coagulum in the right ventricle that traversed the tricuspid vesicle and a significant number.
The sub-specialist points out that the scientific literature indicates that a coil of a single centimeter should be operated on the probabilities of solvable solos.
“Study of my months hospitalized with antibiotics. If the day goes by, there will be septicemia (when the immune system goes out of control and attacks its organs and tejidos) and initiates the fever. We all agree that we should not tolerate open coronary surgery. Endocarditis is synonymous with death and mandarin at home it is mandarin to die ”, afirmó.
“Mediante the technology of Angio Vac that is like a” dust sucker “we can insert a cannula by the angel through small incisions of one centimeter that is connected to the cardiopulmonary bomb of Angio Vac and suction the coagulum. The coagulum was so large that I touched the cannula and tuve that I removed from the mist. We collected 98% of the coagulum because the rice was calcified. With everything and this patient is ours, but we are all there and we are very thankful to God ”, emotional celebrity.
Similarly, López de Victoria celebrated by doubling the hazaña pues that the patient’s medical cube contained a procedure of this type with a unique herring in Puerto Rico that was exactly one victory, but the totality of the cost of this team was reduced $ 14 million. “In order to enhance the humanity of the medical plan, the anonymous heroes of this victory”, aseguró.
The first case of the use of this team in Puerto Rico was carried out in the year 2019, where this medium was the only one to report the log of the case report in the year 2020 with a patient with pulmonary embolism. A second case involving a patient with breast cancer also used the team required in the United States. This man with endocarditis and a bullet of 8 centimeters will build the third case in the island, of which this means the privilege of thinking.