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Mangaluru, Sep 24: KMC Hospital Mangaluru successfully performed a rare and complex heart surgery on a 50-year-old male patient suffering from chronic calcific constrictive pericarditis, a condition that severely restricts heart function. The surgery, carried out in September 2025, involved a highly skilled multidisciplinary team and was one of the very few such procedures performed in the region. The patient, who had been experiencing severe fatigue, breathlessness, swelling of the lower limbs and abdomen for more than two years, was successfully treated and has now been discharged in a stable condition.

The patient first consulted Dr Rajesh Bhat, consultant – interventional cardiologist, with severe breathlessness on minimal activity, unusual weight gain, and fatigue. At

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