An Open Heart Surgery was recently done at Capitol University Medical City, a first in Northern Mindanao. The operation was to correct a Mitral Valve Stenosis, ...Read more
An Open Heart Surgery was recently done at Capitol University Medical City, a first in Northern Mindanao. The operation was to correct a Mitral Valve Stenosis, a heart condition wherein the leaflets of the mitral valve (one of the four valves of the heart) are fused together by scar tissue, which gradually causes a norrowing of the valve, thereby slowing blood flow from the left atrium to the left ventricles, which in turn causes the heart to overwork and enlarge. If untreated, Mintral valve stenosis can result into heart attacks or strokes. The most common cause of Mintral valve stenosis is a bacterial infection of the throat, which, when it involves the heart, can produce what we call Rheumatic Heart Disease.
I was 21 yearS old when i was diagnosed as a case of Severe Mintral Valve Stenosis secondary to Rheumatic Heart Disease and was advised by her attending Interventional Cardiologist, Dr. Jose Victor Pena (CUMC), to undergo Mitral Valve replacement.
Last March 6, 2010, at around 9 in the morning, the Cardiac Surgical Team of Capitol University Medical City, led by Dr. Jose Joaquin Hernandez, a Thoraco-Cardiovascular Surgeon, based in CUMC, together with Dr. Felix Lukban, from the University of the Philippines-Philippine General Hospital, Manila, performed the first open heart surgery, right here in the City of Cagayan de Oro.