Jayalalithaa did not have heart diseases, cardiologist Sridhar informs board

To a question on why an angiogram was not done, the counsel quoted the surgeon as telling the panel that she did not need it at any point in time and it was a diagnostic test that had nothing to do with her vegetation.

"The cardiac arrest was only a consequence Jayalalithaa faced in view of a bundle of diseases she had.

The cardiac arrest was not due to either vegetation or (valve) perforation...the doctor told the panel," he said.

Counsel for Apollo Hospital, Maimoona Badsha said the doctor, in his deposition, said septicaemia also caused vegetation, as well as valve perforation and Jayalalithaa was hence given antibiotics.

Even on September 28, 2016, when her infection was high, the perforation was very small.

He concurred that the finding of all the doctors was just the same, which was that Jayalalithaa did not need any invasive surgery.

Even a team of AIIMS doctors from Delhi, who visited Jayalalithaa on December 3, 2016, had opined that there was no need for any cardiac investigation or intervention, he said.

Earlier, a man who wanted to depose as a witness, incoherently claimed that he has "brought in Jayalalithaa with him and that he had talked to her every day" and that the panel had declined to hear him, according to Pandian.

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