Hyderabad: First Covid-19 recovered patient to undergo triple bypass surgery

HYDERABAD: A 63-year-old resident of Karwan, Hyderabad Afsar Khan is arguably the country’s first Covid-19 patient to have undergone a triple bypass surgery after recovery from the much dreaded coronavirus.
While he had been suffering from coronary artery disease and was having chest pain on exertion for about a year, he had was kept on medical management after he a CT coronary angiography last year revealed blocks in all 3 coronary arteries of the heart.
Afsar meanwhile contracted the Covid-19 infection and was detected positive for the virus in early April this year. He was admitted to the Gandhi hospital and discharged after 22 days of treatment when he tested negative.
However, after discharge from hospital, his heart symptoms increased and in May he developed unstable angina. “With increasing chest pain, he underwent coronary angiography in June. This showed blocks in left main coronary artery, 100% block in LAD coronary artery, as well as tight block in right coronary artery. He was still corona negative. We performed a triple bypass surgery on July 16.
This is a first of its kind surgery. So far, in India, there has been no experience of a Corona positive patient who had recovered from infection, became negative and then undergone bypass surgery and was successfully discharged,” said Dr Prateek Bhatnagar, Chief Cardiac Surgeon at Care Hospital where the surgery was performed.