‘I’m here for a reason.’ Doctors call UH student’s recovery a miracle after three cardiac arrests.
Kavya Patel is studying public health at the University of Houston. It’s a path she’s on, because of her own health battle.
Patel was diagnosed with an inflammatory disease. Doctors think a reaction to medication caused her to collapse in her kitchen in December 2020. Her aunt performed CPR that kept her alive long enough to get the critical care and surgery she needed at the hospital.
“She was dead. If she didn’t have her aunt there, she’d be dead. In Sugar Land, if they didn’t recognize the fibrillation and shock her, she’d be dead. If we didn’t put her on the heart-lung machine, she’d be dead,” said Dr. Biswajit Kar, an interventional cardiologist with UTHealth Houston Heart & Vascular and Memorial Hermann.
Kar said Patel’s heart stopped three times that day.
“It’s divine intervention. In medicine, we do all we can do but we’ve all seen things beyond our control, and I think this is one of them,” Kar said.
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