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TAVI and 18 Holes of Golf – 5 Days Later

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This is a patient case about an 81-year-old man with a severely narrowed aortic valve, or what we call the aortic stenosis, which is severe narrowing of the heart valve that takes all the blood out of the heart.

He also had motor neurone disease, a potentially devastating nerve disorder, that was also affecting his chest. As a result, he was unsuitable for open heart surgery and the chest opening associated with that.

We were able to offer him TAVI (or trans-catheter aortic valve implantation) through a little keyhole puncture in the groin and in only 40 minutes we succeeded in putting a whole new heart valve in.

He was out of the hospital in a couple of days and, remarkably, the gentleman played 18 holes of golf five days post procedure.

This is what the revolution in medicine is all about.

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