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The Aminu Kano
Teaching Hospital (AKTH) in Kano, Kano State, has successfully conducted
a cardiac pacemaker implantation on 87 year-old Shehu Bashir-Nababa.
The hospital’s Deputy Director of Information, Malam Aminu Inuwa, disclosed this to newsmen on Friday in Kano.
Inuwa
in a statement said that the operation conducted by a team of medical
doctors from the Cardiology, Radiology and Anesthesiology Departments
and specialised nurses, lasted one and a-half hours.
The leader of the team, Dr Isma’il Muhammad-Inuwa, a consultant
cardiothoracic surgeon, as saying the patient was received at the
Accident and Emergency Unit of the hospital with third degree heart
block.
“The third degree heart
block represents low heart rate less than 40 beats per minute, sync opal
attacks and high blood pressure,’’ he said.
In the statement explained that the pacemaker lead electrode wire was
inserted into the right ventricle through the vein in the left upper
chest and the electrode was connected to the pulse generator placed
under the skin.
“The function of the pacemaker
is to increase heart rate to at least 60 beats per minute as against
less than 40 beats per minute,’’ he said.
The team leader advised the public to be more vigilant in identifying the signs and symptoms of the problem.
He said that some people, even, among health professionals wrongly interpret or treat it as epilepsy.
The patient, Bashir-Nababa ,
commenting 48 hours after the surgery, expressed his gratitude to Allah
for saving him from the trouble of recurrent seizure.
Source: NAN
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