The public Conde de São Januário Hospital Centre has completed a heart valve repair operation after learning the technique from doctors at the First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University (JNU) last month, marking a successful example of collaboration among medical institutions in the Greater Bay Area (GBA), the Health Bureau (SSM) said in a statement yesterday.
The surgery applied an advanced minimally invasive thoracoscopic small incision approach, which featured only three small chest incisions instead of the traditional large median chest incision to open the sternum, resulting in a less invasive surgery with a quicker recovery, the statement said.
Only six hours after the surgery, the patient was taken off the ventilator, and he or she was discharged from the hospital’s intensive care unit (ICU) 72 hours after the surgery, the statement noted, which did not reveal the patient’s gender.
The statement said the public hospital also marked a breakthrough in coronary artery bypass graft (CABG), using customised aortic stents and bypass grafting to successfully reconstruct three branch arteries on the arch for two patients, and both recovered well.
According to the bureau, as heart and macrovascular diseases are one of the leading causes of death in Macau, the public hospital will continue to enhance specialised services to meet the growing demand for its specialised healthcare services.
This undated file photo provided by the Health Bureau (SSM) yesterday shows doctors of the public Conde de São Januário Hospital Centre carrying out a coronary artery bypass graft (CABG).
