In 2009, at the age of 24, our patient had a occlusion of heart arteries due to extremely high cholesterol and had to undergo bypass surgery. A genetic hypercholesterinemia disease had affected all his blood vessels. The disease also started to narrow the aortic valve, and we had to perform a second heart surgery in September 2022 because the extreme aortic stenosis eventually brought the aortic vessel to the point of bursting. We replace the aortic valve with a new mechanical metal valve and the aortic artery with an artificial one.

Later, when he had returned to a relatively normal life, in April 2023, at the age of 38, he required a pacemaker for arrhythmia. After pacemaker implantation at another health facility, the patient struggles with the recovery process. Despite being young, he experiences a delayed recovery. But just as he was starting to recover, he was faced with a completely different health problem: he was diagnosed with a brain hemorrhage. He undergoes emergency brain surgery at an outside center to stop the bleeding, resulting in the removal of part of his skull.

These last two operations had left them very weak. In general, they were extremely exhausted. Their immune system started to deteriorate day by day and they developed a serious infection. He had to stay in hospital for two months on intravenous antibiotics. The infection worsened considerably as the bacteria settled on the heart valve we had previously implanted, dislodged it and even caused an abscess inside the heart. As the general condition deteriorated, the patient naturally started to get depressed.