KARIMNAGAR, SEPTEMBER 16, 2025: Doctors at Yashodha Hospital, Hitec City, Hyderabad, had successfully performed a complicated and rare surgery by deploying an unusual route for stent grafting on a 64-year-old patient with a condition called Aortic Arch Debranching and Arch Vessel replacement recently.
Disclosing this to newsmen here on Tuesday, Yashodha Hospital Senior Consultant Cardiothoracic surgeon Dr Vikran Reddy Aerra said that the patient Nagaiah, a retired SI of police, was suffering from High BP and a change in the voice following the cough. He tried medicines from his son, who is a physician, but they proved futile. His Son, Dr Vamshidhar, informed of further tests and approached Yashoda Hospital in Hitec City, Hyderabad.
The Yashoda hospital doctors analysed the case by conducting various tests and decided to conduct risky surgery. With the availability of state-of-the-art technology and an expert team at the hospital, the doctors had conducted the surgery and inserted the stent within 10 hours in the operating theatre as the operation involves lots of procedures, includingthe stoppage of blood to the brain and bringing down the temperature of the patient to 26 degrees Celsius. This surgery is also called Frozen Elephant Trunk (FET).
Though it was a complicated surgery as it would lead to paralysis, brain death and going into a coma, the patient was successfully treated with the state-of-the-art machinery available in the hospital, and the patient recovered within a week and is leading a happy, normal life.
