102-Year-Old Woman Successfully Pacemaker Implant By Dr Aparna Jaswal
Pacemaker Implant: Making her the oldest woman to have successfully undergone the surgery in the private sector, 102-year-old Maya Devi from Panipat was implanted with a pacemaker by Dr. Aparna Jaswal at the Fortis Escorts Heart Institute in the city. The operation has given a new lease of life to the patient, who was brought to the hospital following a stroke and having suddenly collapsed at home. Dr. Aparna Jaswal, ( Best Cardiologist in Delhi ) senior consultant in the Department of Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology at the hospital, who led a team of cardiologist and anesthetists to perform the surgery in a record time of fewer than 20 minutes last week, said: “In the previous two cases, pacemakers were implanted in 105-year-old men at PGIMER Chandigarh and Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences in Lucknow.” Dr Aparna Jaswal Describe The Pacemakers Come in Various Forms W e have a single chamber pacemaker, we have a dual-chamber pacemaker, we h...