2 chamber pacemaker fixed on 62-yr-old with artificial valve

A city hospital successfully fixed a two chamber pacemaker on a 62-year old Kenyan national, with complaints of multiple episodes of giddiness and difficulty in walking even for a short distance.
Silas from Nakuru, Kenya, had come to Kovai Medical Centre and Hospital (KMCH) with his 62 year old mother, Lucy Karanja two weeks ago.
Luch, who had already undergone the replacement of right side heart valve in USA a couple of years ago, was referred to the Electro Physiology Department. Consultant Dr M Lawrence Jesuraj evaluated her and found she was suffering from a very slow heart rate--lesser than 35 beats /minute.

The medical management would have provided her only short term relief and the right option given by Jesuraj was to go for a Pace Maker to enhance the heart rate to have a better quality of life, a KMCH release said today.
Though implantation of a permanent Pace Maker was relatively common and carried out by fixing two wires inside the heart, Lucy had a unique problem of already having an artificial valve (due to her earlier surgery) in the area where the pacing wires to be fixed, Jesuraj said.
Doctors then fixed the two chamber pace maker with one wire in the right atrium (Upper chamber of the heart) and other through the vein of the heart in a four hour procedure.

The patient was discharged within two days and doing all her normal routines, Jesuraj said.