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From Bat-Signal To Heart-Saver: How India's First Batman Procedure Helped A High-Risk Patient Avoid Open-Heart Surgery
A team in Jaipur has performed Indias first electrosurgical valve-in-valve mitral intervention, informally known as the "Batman Procedure", offering a minimally invasive option for very high-risk patients with failed mitral valves.
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Doctors Remove Rare Large Fungal Ball From Heart Valve Of Elderly Man
A 70-year-old man diagnosed with a rare condition got a fresh lease of life after undergoing a complex surgery in which doctors extracted a "6 cm-long fungal ball" from his heart valve, hospital authorities said on Tuesday.
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Do Not Dismiss Tiredness As A Sign Of Old Age, It May Indicate A Heart Condition!
Aortic Stenosis can be congenital (present from birth) in people born with a bicuspid (with only 2 cusps or leaflets) aortic valve. Nearly 7 out of 10 adults with a bicuspid aortic valve can develop AS in their 50s or 60s.
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Mick Jagger Tweets He's 'On The Mend' After Reported Heart Surgery
Mick Jagger reportedly had to undergo heart valve replacement surgery in New York
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In A First, Doctors Perform Successful Child Valve Replacement Surgery In J&K
Doctors at the Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) in Jammu and Kashmir's capital Srinagar have carried out the first successful child heart valve replacement surgery in the state.
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65-Year-Old Gets Leaking Heart Valve Repaired Without Surgery In Delhi
Doctors have given a 65-year-old Delhi-based patient suffering from heart valve leakage, a new lease of life using a unique treatment procedure.
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Latest Heart Valve Treatment Allows Patients To Avoid An Open-Heart Surgery
Currently used for patients for whom an open-heart surgery can be fatal, doctors are trying make transcatheter aortic valve replacement a treatment for all patients with an aortic valve disease.
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Predicting Right-Size Of Heart Valves Before Surgery
Children born with a certain congenital heart defect often need a pulmonary valve surgically inserted when they are 10 to 15 years old. Researchers have now developed computer simulations to determine if the necessary valve will fit in the individual's heart -- before the surgery takes place.
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Cyprus President's Heart Surgery Success: Official
An official says Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades' surgery to repair a heart valve was successful and that he remains in stable condition.
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Lalu Prasad Yadav Undergoes Heart Surgery in Mumbai
Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad is undergoing two major heart surgeries - one to replace an aortic valve and the other to repair the aorta, at a hospital in Mumbai today.
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New heart valve does not require open surgery
Doctors in the US have implanted a newly approved aortic heart valve device in a patient that does not require open surgery.
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Now, a one-hour operation to change heart valve
An Indian-origin surgeon-led team in Britain has come up with a one-hour keyhole operation to replace heart valve, a breakthrough which offers hope to cardiac patients too sick to undergo an open-heart surgery.Vinayak Bapat of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital and his team have developed the procedure, called transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TA...
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From Bat-Signal To Heart-Saver: How India's First Batman Procedure Helped A High-Risk Patient Avoid Open-Heart Surgery
A team in Jaipur has performed Indias first electrosurgical valve-in-valve mitral intervention, informally known as the "Batman Procedure", offering a minimally invasive option for very high-risk patients with failed mitral valves.
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Doctors Remove Rare Large Fungal Ball From Heart Valve Of Elderly Man
A 70-year-old man diagnosed with a rare condition got a fresh lease of life after undergoing a complex surgery in which doctors extracted a "6 cm-long fungal ball" from his heart valve, hospital authorities said on Tuesday.
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Do Not Dismiss Tiredness As A Sign Of Old Age, It May Indicate A Heart Condition!
Aortic Stenosis can be congenital (present from birth) in people born with a bicuspid (with only 2 cusps or leaflets) aortic valve. Nearly 7 out of 10 adults with a bicuspid aortic valve can develop AS in their 50s or 60s.
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Mick Jagger Tweets He's 'On The Mend' After Reported Heart Surgery
Mick Jagger reportedly had to undergo heart valve replacement surgery in New York
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In A First, Doctors Perform Successful Child Valve Replacement Surgery In J&K
Doctors at the Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) in Jammu and Kashmir's capital Srinagar have carried out the first successful child heart valve replacement surgery in the state.
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65-Year-Old Gets Leaking Heart Valve Repaired Without Surgery In Delhi
Doctors have given a 65-year-old Delhi-based patient suffering from heart valve leakage, a new lease of life using a unique treatment procedure.
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Latest Heart Valve Treatment Allows Patients To Avoid An Open-Heart Surgery
Currently used for patients for whom an open-heart surgery can be fatal, doctors are trying make transcatheter aortic valve replacement a treatment for all patients with an aortic valve disease.
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Predicting Right-Size Of Heart Valves Before Surgery
Children born with a certain congenital heart defect often need a pulmonary valve surgically inserted when they are 10 to 15 years old. Researchers have now developed computer simulations to determine if the necessary valve will fit in the individual's heart -- before the surgery takes place.
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Cyprus President's Heart Surgery Success: Official
An official says Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades' surgery to repair a heart valve was successful and that he remains in stable condition.
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Lalu Prasad Yadav Undergoes Heart Surgery in Mumbai
Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad is undergoing two major heart surgeries - one to replace an aortic valve and the other to repair the aorta, at a hospital in Mumbai today.
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New heart valve does not require open surgery
Doctors in the US have implanted a newly approved aortic heart valve device in a patient that does not require open surgery.
-
Now, a one-hour operation to change heart valve
An Indian-origin surgeon-led team in Britain has come up with a one-hour keyhole operation to replace heart valve, a breakthrough which offers hope to cardiac patients too sick to undergo an open-heart surgery.Vinayak Bapat of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital and his team have developed the procedure, called transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TA...
