IT HAS BEEN A VERY SAD AND QUITE TROUBLING EXPERIENCE FOR ME . I AM A CHRONIC RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE PATIENT HAVING MITRAL STENOSIS AND HAD BALLOON MITRAL VALVOTOMY DONE AT APOLLO HOSPITALS, HYDERABAD IN MARCH , 2000 UNDER DR. RABIN CHAKRABORTY THERE. I HAVE BEEN GETTING FOLLOW UPS EVERY YEAR SINCE THEN UNDER DR. RABIN CHAKRABORTY AND THIS YEAR TOO, I HAD A CHECK UP AS USUAL AS I HAD BEEN EXPERIENCING SHORTNESS OF BREATH AND MILD ORTHOPNEA . I HAVE HYPERTENSION AND ON CALAPTIN 40 MG AND TELMA 40 MG FOR THAT WHICH DR. CHAKRABORTY PRESCRIBED AND PERSISTED WITH IT . AS MY SUFFERINGS DID NOT IMPROVE AND COULD NOT GET IN TOUCH WITH DR. CHAKRABORTY FOR FURTHER ADVICE, I DECIDED TO GO TO NARAYANA HRUDAYALAYA , BANGALORE FOR HAVING ADVICE OF DR. DEVI P. SHETTY AND FIXED AN APPOINTMENT WITH HIM ON 02-07-10.
ANYWAY, I MET DR. DEVI SHETTY ON THAT DAY AND AFTER HAVING GONE THROUGH MY CASE REPORT , HE POLITELY REFERRED ME TO DR. SANJOY MEHROTRA, A SENIOR CONSULTANT CARDIOLOGIST THERE AND I MET HIM ON 03-07-10 AT HIS CHAMBER IN THE SAME HOSPITAL. DR. MEHROTRA TOOK ME TO THE ECHO-LAB AND STUDIED MY HEART AND SAID THAT I WOULD NOT NEED BMV AT THAT POINT OF TIME AND HE PRESCRIBED SOME MEDICINES WHICH I LIKE TO PUT HERE: 1) ATEN25 -OD, 2) AMIFRU40-OD, 3)PENTIDS400- BD, 4) TELMA 40 -OD, 5)CALAPTIN4O-BD AND 6) STATOR-10-OD. IN GOOD FAITH , I BEGAN TAKING THE MEDICINES FROM NEXT DAY AND CAME BACK TO KOLKATA ON 09-07-10 AND RESUMED OFFICE ON 10-07-10. INITIALLY, I FELT SOME RELIEF IN MY SUFFERINGS INITIALLY BUT AFTER A FEW DAYS MY SUFFERINGS WORSENED WHICH INCLUDED VERTIGO, GIDDINESS AND COMPLETE CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIA AND I FELL DOWN IN THE STATION PLATFORM ON 17-07-10 AT RISHRA, HOOGHLY. SOME CO-PASSENGERS HELPED TO RECOVER AND I RUSHED TO DR. S.K.HAZRA, OUR HOUSE PHYSICIAN IN THE EVENING THAT DAY AND HE DID MY ECG WHICH REVEALED THAT ATRIAL FIBRILLATION HAS SET IN AND THE CARDIAC RHYTHM HAS CHANGED ALTOGETHER . HE CHANGED THE COURSE OF MEDICINES AND EXCLUDED CALAPTIN AND HALVED THE DOSE OF AMIFRU AND ADDED ACITROM2 . I HAD BEEN HAVING LOW
BP AND HE ADVISED ME REST FOR A WEEK. ANYWAY , MY CONDITION WORSENED AND I PUT UP THE MATTER TO DR. DEVI SHETTY THROUGH E-MAIL ON 18-07-10 AND I GOT HIS REPLY ON 20-07-10 ADVISING ME TO CONTINUE THE MEDICATION OF DR. S.K.HAZRA. BUT AS MY CONDITION DID NOT IMPROVE , DR.HAZRA REFERRED ME TO DR. RABIN CHAKRABORTY AGAIN AND ON 26-07-10 I WENT TO DR. RABIN CHAKRABORTY IN THE CHAMBER AT HIS RESIDENCE. AN ECG WAS DONE AGAIN AND DR. CHAKRABORTY ASKED ME WHY I HAD GONE TO DR. DEVI SHETTY .HE SAID THAT ATRIAL FIBRILLATION HAS SET IN DUE TO ATEN , CALAPTIN AND AMIFRU GIVEN IN COMBINATION AND STOPPED ATEN ,AMIFRU AND PENTIDS. HE SAID THAT I WAS NOT GIVEN ATEN EVEN WHEN HE DIAGONISED HYPERTENSION AND PRESCRIBED TELMA40-BD, CALAPTIN 40-BD ANS DYTOR-10 OD AND SINCE THERE WAS WHEEZING, HE SUSPECTED ASTHMA HAS ALSO SET IN AND SO REFERRED ME TO DR. ASOKE SENGUPTA AT APOLLO HOSPITALS KOLKATA FOR CHECK-UP . DR.CHAKRABORTY SAID THAT AF HAS SET IN BY TAKING ATEN AND CALAPTIN IN COMBINATION AND OPINED THAT I MAY BE NEEDED TO UNDERGO ELECTIVE DC CARDIOVERSION TO REVERSE BACK THE CARDIAC RHYTHM AGAIN. HOWEVER, AFTER MY CONSULTATION WITH DR. SENGUPTA , IT WAS CONFIRMED THROUGH PULMONARY FUNCTION TEST THAT I HAVE BRONCHIAL ASTHMA AND HE PRESCRIBED ME MEDICINES WHICH INCLUDE INHALER ETC. I IMMEDIATELY SENT MAIL TO DR. DEVI SHETTY WITH A COPY FORWARDED TO DR. MEHROTRA STATING THE WHOLE THING WITH ATTACHMENTS OF PRESCRIPTIONS AND REPORTS OF ECG SEEKING ADVICE.
NOW, THERE ARE QUITE A NUMBER OF MAILS THAT HAVE BEEN SENT TO ME DEFENDING DR. MEHROTRA'S PRESCRIPTION OF ATEN , AMIFRU AND CALAPTIN BUT TO MY ASTONISHMENT , I FOUND NOT A SINGLE MAIL TO HAVE ACCEPTED THAT A MISTAKE HAS BEEN DONE BY DR. MEHROTRA . RATHER HE IS TRYING TO DEFEND HIS PRESCRIPTION BY STATING THAT AF CAN HAPPEN ANY TIME TO MITRAL STENOSIS PATIENTS ALTHOUGH HE ADVISED ME TO STOP TAKING MEDICINES PRESCRIBED BY IN ONE MAIL AND OPINED THAT I NEED SEPERATE TREATMENT FOR AF AND I SHOULD GET THE TREATMENT DONE IN KOLKATA. ANYWAY I AM STILL UNDER REST AND SCHEDULED TO CONSULT DR.CHAKRABORTY AGAIN ON 02-08-10 .

NOW, SO MUCH CONFUSED I AM AND HAVING GONE THROUGH THIS MALADY OF SO CALLED WRONG TREATMENT , SEEK THE PLATFORM OF THIS FORUM TO POST A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE HAPPENINGS AND MAINTAIN MY DESIRE TO POST MORE IN THIS ISSUE AS IT HAPPENS NOW ON.

I AM REALLY EAGER TO KNOW WHO IS TELLING THE TRUTH , DR. CHAKRABORTY OR DR. MEHROTRA ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF AF AND KEEN TO GET THE COMPENSATION OF MY EXPENDITURES INVOLVED IN THE TREATMENT IN WHOLE , THE FINANCIAL INVOLVED ASSOCIATED WITH MY LEAVE OF ABSENCE NOTWITHSTANDING.http://www.consumercourtforum.in/ima...s/confused.gif