The Lagos State University Hospital, LASUTH, has successfully performed a non-surgical repair of a hole in a heart defect. The procedure, known in medical parlance as ventricular septal defect closure, was performed by specialists in the hospital’s cardiac catheterization laboratory. Announcing this feat in a series of tweets on its @LASUTHikeja Twitter page, the health agency said it was the first public tertiary healthcare facility of its kind in Nigeria. Dr. Olwase Oladimeji, an interventional cardiologist at the hospital, said with this development, “patients now have options for open heart…
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