Wednesday, 24 September 2014

PHOTOS - Man lives with bullet lodged in his heart for TWO MONTHS- and every beat during that time could have killed him



An Indian man was recovering well after undergoing surgery to remove a bullet that had been lodged in his heart for two months, a doctor said Wednesday. Bharat Sharma, 32 was shot twice in July after becoming accidently caught up in a bank robbery in the country’s eastern Uttar Pradesh state, according to a report in the Times of India.Sharma had surgery to remove a bullet lodged in his waist, but local surgeons had refused to take out the one in his heart, fearing he would die instantly, see more photos after the break...
the report said.Sharma finally travelled to the western city of Ahmedabad for the surgery on Tuesday to remove the .20 caliber bullet lodged near the apex of his heart’s left ventricle. Cardiac surgeon Anil Jain said he and his team of two performed a “complicated” three-hour operation to remove the bullet and stitch up the heart.“The bullet was stuck horizontally between the valves,” said Jain, from the SAL private hospital in Ahmedabad. “Also, since the patient had lost lots of blood after the incident, we had to be very careful,” he told AFP.“How the patient survived and reached us is pure destiny, Jain said.The doctor said Sharma would be able to return to work in another month after his recovery in the hospital’s intensive care unit.

peration to remove the bullet and stitch up the heart.
“The bullet was stuck horizontally between the valves,” said Jain, from the SAL private hospital in Ahmedabad.
“Also, since the patient had lost lots of blood after the incident, we had to be very careful,” he told AFP.
“How the patient survived and reached us is pure destiny, Jain said.

An X-ray shows the 20-caliber bullet lodged in the 32-year-old's chest. Another bullet, which hit his waist, was removed within days of the ambush in July but two sets of doctors refused to operate on the bullet lodged in Mr Sharma's heart, for fear surgery would kill the newly married man
But eventually doctors at the Sal Hospital in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, agreed to take on Mr Sharma's case and successfully removed the bullet on September 23
Mr Sharma has been left with an impressive scar

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