Cardiovascular examination of a 23-year old lady from Tripura revealed continuous murmur at left upper parasternal area.

A 23-year-old woman from Tripura with a 3-year history of effort dyspnea and palpitations has been cured successfully by a catheter-based intervention, instead of carrying out a surgery correction, at a city hospital recently.

The team of doctors put an umbrella- shaped special device called Amplatzer Vascular Plug (AVP) to bring relief to the patient whose Cardiovascular examination had revealed continuous murmur at left upper parasternal area.Patient Umrao Bano (name changed on request), had an abnormal vascular channel connecting the right coronary artery and right atrium called congenital (inherited) aortocameral fistula.

Umrao consulted the Medica Heart Team doctors comprising Interventional Cardiologists and Cardiac Surgeons together.The doctors met the patient together at-the-same-time and collectively advised her family that the catheter-based intervention would be a safer and best option than a surgical procedure, a hospital release said here today.