Man died as docs tried to fix heart

ARTERY IS TORN DURING EMERGENCY OP FOR DAD

A MAN who was told he required urgent surgery after attending the Mater Private Hospital for cardiac tests died when one of his main arteries was torn during an emergency procedure.

An inquest at Dublin District Coroner’s Court heard medical evidence that Albert Kyles (56), from Killybegs, Co Donegal, died on December 14, 2017, as a result of blood clot caused by a tear to his main artery while surgeons were trying to fit a stent.

Mr Kyles, who ran his own fish sales business, had undergone emergency surgery two days earlier when he had been called back by the hospital after a test on December 10, 2017, showed a severe narrowing of his arteries.

Coroner Dr Crona Gallagher returned a verdict of death due to complications of a medical procedure.

Cardiologi st Dr Pauline Diamond told the hearing she had been asked to carry out However, he said the an urgent angiogram on focus should be on the Mr Kyles on December severity and location of 12 but he suffered a carthe t arterial blockage diac arrest and lost t which he described as “a wws s consciousness. silent killer”.

She said a decision was s Mr Kyles’ daughter, taken by a group of doc- Charlotte Kennedy, said tors with the agreement of f her father was “very fit the patient that he should be fitted with for his age” and a judo instructor, a stent immediately. although she acknowledged there was a

Although he had shown no pr ior known history of heart conditions in his symptoms, she added his condition family. meant he was “at risk of sudden death”. She described how she had to switch

Dr David Barton, a consultant cardioff her father’s life support machine on ologist, who carried out the procedure December 14, 2017, after being informed to fit a stent, recounted how Mr Kyles he had suffered several strokes and had an acute onset of chest pain which irreparable brain damage. led to him “suddenly and vigorously “I’m exceptionally sad at his loss, as moving both his arms” which dislodged would any child be, but especially when the catheter. Mr Kyles suffered another his passing was so sudden,” she said. cardiac arrest, which led to a decision that he needed a bypass.

Despite the best efforts of surgical teams, Mr Kyles never recovered. Questioned by the coroner, Dr Barton accepted it was likely that the tear of the artery occurred during attempts to fit a stent to Mr Kyles.

He denied suggestions by Mr Kyles’s relatives that the decision to try and fit a stent rather than carry out bypass surgery was due to a lack of facilities or a delay in surgical availability.

A cardiothoracic and transplant surgeon at the Mater, Seyed Hossein Javadpour, who performed the heart bypass surgery, admitted it had been “a long shot” given the patient’s condition. Mr Javadpour said it was difficult to say if the outcome would have been any different if the surgery had been carried out earlier.

HEARTBREAK: Charlotte Kennedy, daughter of the late Albert Kyles Killer