Heart diseases have become very common and are on the rise due to bad lifestyle and bad eating habits. When you are sitting in a group you will hear people talking about how one of their family members was diagnosed with a heart trouble and had to visit a heart surgeon but these discussions come and go until you experience something of similar sort.
My grandfather who is otherwise a very healthy and stout man and is considerably active too was diagnosed with heart blockage and was suggested to see a heart specialist or a heart surgeon immediately.
We asked friends and relatives and were suggested Dr. Kewal Krishan who is part of The Max Super Speciality Hospital in Saket, New Delhi. The best heart surgeon in Delhi is one of those handful surgeons in our country who have taken formal training in all aspects of heart transplantation.
Dr. Krishan has completed advanced fellowship at world’s top hospitals including Mayo Clinic, Rochester in USA and the famous Mount Sinai Medical Centre at New York, USA, where he gained expertise and polished his skills in advanced therapies. With the possession of all these wonderful qualifications Dr. Krishan is counted among the top heart surgeons of the country.
So we took an appointment from him and visited him. He was very calm and seemed confident too, a heart transplant was what he suggested for my grand father because of Dilated cardiomyopathy – A condition where heart is abnormally thickened, enlarged or stiffened (weakening of heart muscles). He promised us a successful treatment. We had completed faith in him as Dr Kewal Krishan has under his name the maximum number of ECMO or Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in the whole country and was also the first surgeon to conduct Max Hospital’s first heart transplant.
Dr. Kewal Krishan told us about the risks involved, the wait time for arranging a donor heart and expenses as well. We were ready to do all the formalities to get my grandfather treated by the best cardiac surgeon, he told us that heart transplant is an extensive and critical surgery which can last for up to 6 hours.
Finally the day of the transplant surgery came, before that a few days in advance my grandfather got admitted to get the necessary tests done, the best LVAD surgeon started the surgery of transplant and we all were anxious and nervous but we had complete faith in the best heart surgeon who was giving my grandfather a new life.
The transplant was successful; my grandfather was kept under strict observation for a couple of weeks till the situation is deemed normal. During the stay at the hospital after a heart transplant surgery, my grandfather under the amazing expertise and supervision of the best cardiac surgeon Dr. Krishan underwent regular tests including heart biopsies, electrocardiograms, echocardiograms, lung function tests and more.
Finally he was discharged and we all couldn’t thank Dr. Kewal Krishan enough for helping us and giving a new ray of hope in our lives with our hale and hearty granddad.
