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Procedures

TRADITIONAL AND INNOVATIVE PROCEDURES

A lot of patients have a single problem that is typically a narrow aortic valve or coronary artery disease. These people are eminently suitable for traditional open heart surgery from which they get an excellent result.

However, there are a growing number of patients with other significant medical conditions that may prevent them from having open heart surgery safely with a meaningful recovery to independent life. For these people, open heart surgery - a highly invasive procedure that requires opening of the chest – can potentially do more harm then good/can lead to unintended outcomes/can have adverse consequences. For these reasons, less invasive ways of treating mitral regurgitation and aortic stenosis are being developed.

The Sydney Heart Team is able to assess the patients who are most suitable for having traditional open heart surgical techniques or having the trans-catheter techniques. It’s why our outcomes with both open heart surgery and trans-catheter heart surgery are extremely good.

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Since 2009, the Sydney Heart Team has been successfully treating some of the country’s most challenging heart patients, returning them to an excellent quality of life.

- Professor Martin Ng

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