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When he was crippled by stomach pain last summer, Paul Tarnowski thought about his wife — they were about to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary — and his father, who had died from a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm.
The condition, marked by a bulge in the main blood vessel that carries blood from the heart, is often fatal since it tends to develop with few symptoms. If the aneurysm bleeds or ruptures, it poses a dire medical emergency.
Tarnowski, a retired public service manager, was diagnosed with a bleeding aneurysm in the emergency department of The Ottawa Hospital and rushed to surgery.
There, he became one of a growing number of Ottawa patients to benefit from a new surgical technique that allows doctors to make repairs without large incisions or open surgery.
The minimally invasive approach, known as endovascular surgery, takes advantage of the body’s network of blood vessels. Surgeons make small incisions in the groin and thread catheters into the blood vessels; they navigate to the surgical site with the help of real-time X-rays, then deploy miniaturize tools to effect repairs.
Tarnowski’s aorta was repaired with a stent that reinforced the wall of his damaged artery. He was out of hospital within days and attended his anniversary party less than two weeks later.
“After the procedure, I felt good,” Tarnowski, 78, told reporters Friday at The Ottawa Hospital where officials unveiled two new operating suites custom-built for endovascular surgery.
Endovascular surgery represents one of the most important surgical advances in the past two decades. It’s easier on a patient’s heart and other organs since they suffer less physical trauma. With less time under general anesthesia and less post-operative discomfort, patients go home sooner and tend to face fewer infections or other complications.
The new $9-million operating rooms are the largest at the hospital and equipped with cutting-edge technology that will allow endovascular surgeons to more easily navigate through patients’ bodies. It promises to make the operations safer and faster, quite possibly allowing for more of them.
“This is the operating room of the 21st century,” hospital president and CEO Dr. Jack Kitts declared during a tour of the Civic campus facilities, which go into service Monday.
The new operating space includes a GE Discovery angiography system, the first of its kind in Canada, that provides high quality imaging, but is also moveable — a feature that will allow surgeons to perform both endovascular surgery and traditional, open surgery in the same room.
Dr. Sudhir Nagpal, chief of vascular and endovascular surgery at The Ottawa Hospital, said operations on diseased arteries and veins used to involve large incisions on the chest, stomach or leg. But today, the endovascular revolution means that fewer than half of his cases involve open surgery.
To repair an abdominal aortic aneurysm used to require an incision from the ribcage to the pelvis, he said. Patients would spend about a week in hospital and not fully recover for months. Using endovascular techniques, the same patient would typically spend only one day in hospital and would feel normal within weeks.
“That’s an amazing improvement,” Dr. Nagpal said.
Tarnowski said he was thrilled to be able to attend his anniversary party last August at the Château Laurier, a celebration with 65 invited guests.
“It was a very happy occasion,” said Tarnowski. “I was able to make my speech. It was important for me to let my wife know how much I loved her for all these years, and how much of an inspiration and companion she has been for me. She made me a better person.”
Tarnowski and his wife, Yolande, met on a blind date 57 years ago near Montreal. They celebrate their 51st wedding anniversary Saturday.
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The condition, marked by a bulge in the main blood vessel that carries blood from the heart, is often fatal since it tends to develop with few symptoms. If the aneurysm bleeds or ruptures, it poses a dire medical emergency.
Tarnowski, a retired public service manager, was diagnosed with a bleeding aneurysm in the emergency department of The Ottawa Hospital and rushed to surgery.
There, he became one of a growing number of Ottawa patients to benefit from a new surgical technique that allows doctors to make repairs without large incisions or open surgery.
The minimally invasive approach, known as endovascular surgery, takes advantage of the body’s network of blood vessels. Surgeons make small incisions in the groin and thread catheters into the blood vessels; they navigate to the surgical site with the help of real-time X-rays, then deploy miniaturize tools to effect repairs.
Tarnowski’s aorta was repaired with a stent that reinforced the wall of his damaged artery. He was out of hospital within days and attended his anniversary party less than two weeks later.
“After the procedure, I felt good,” Tarnowski, 78, told reporters Friday at The Ottawa Hospital where officials unveiled two new operating suites custom-built for endovascular surgery.
Endovascular surgery represents one of the most important surgical advances in the past two decades. It’s easier on a patient’s heart and other organs since they suffer less physical trauma. With less time under general anesthesia and less post-operative discomfort, patients go home sooner and tend to face fewer infections or other complications.
The new $9-million operating rooms are the largest at the hospital and equipped with cutting-edge technology that will allow endovascular surgeons to more easily navigate through patients’ bodies. It promises to make the operations safer and faster, quite possibly allowing for more of them.
“This is the operating room of the 21st century,” hospital president and CEO Dr. Jack Kitts declared during a tour of the Civic campus facilities, which go into service Monday.
The new operating space includes a GE Discovery angiography system, the first of its kind in Canada, that provides high quality imaging, but is also moveable — a feature that will allow surgeons to perform both endovascular surgery and traditional, open surgery in the same room.
Dr. Sudhir Nagpal, chief of vascular and endovascular surgery at The Ottawa Hospital, said operations on diseased arteries and veins used to involve large incisions on the chest, stomach or leg. But today, the endovascular revolution means that fewer than half of his cases involve open surgery.
To repair an abdominal aortic aneurysm used to require an incision from the ribcage to the pelvis, he said. Patients would spend about a week in hospital and not fully recover for months. Using endovascular techniques, the same patient would typically spend only one day in hospital and would feel normal within weeks.
“That’s an amazing improvement,” Dr. Nagpal said.
Tarnowski said he was thrilled to be able to attend his anniversary party last August at the Château Laurier, a celebration with 65 invited guests.
“It was a very happy occasion,” said Tarnowski. “I was able to make my speech. It was important for me to let my wife know how much I loved her for all these years, and how much of an inspiration and companion she has been for me. She made me a better person.”
Tarnowski and his wife, Yolande, met on a blind date 57 years ago near Montreal. They celebrate their 51st wedding anniversary Saturday.
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