World-first percutaneous valve-in-valve implant
/In running a structural heart program, we are frequently asked to take on exceptional clinical challenges, often for which there has been no (or very little) precedent.
Read MoreEstablishing a TAVI program
/Sydney Heart Team principal, Professor Michael Vallely, describes how to establish a TAVI program in the attached paper.
Read MoreUsing ECMO during TAVI for exceptionally high risk patients
/Within the spectrum of high-risk patients with aortic stenosis, some patients are of exceptional risk. They often have very weak hearts that predispose them to prohibitive risks of mortality when undergoing TAVI.
Read MoreTransapical TAVI procedure – the only program with zero early mortality
/While most keyhole (transcatheter or percutaneous) aortic valve implant procedures are done through an artery in the groin (femoral artery), a significant number of patients have narrowed arteries in the leg or arteries that are too small, thereby precluding this approach.
Read MoreTAVI treatment for aortic stenosis – world leading results
/In an elderly high-risk population with aortic stenosis, our TAVI program reports a 30-day and 17-month mortality of 3% and 8%, respectively. These clinical outcomes are remarkable when compared with international benchmarks.
Read MoreWoman who slept upright has her life transformed
/This patient is a 72-year-old woman who was profoundly short of breath. She couldn’t walk more than 10 metres without becoming exhausted and had to sleep upright at night, if she could sleep at all.
Read MoreTAVI and 18 holes of golf – 5 days later
/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.
Read MoreWorld first keyhole surgery
/Sometimes we’re asked to do extraordinary or, or unprecedented things, and the case of Jack, a young 30-year-old man who was born with a complex congenital heart disease is a good example.
Read MoreHybrid off-pump bypass and keyhole aortic valve replacement
/Martin is a 92-year-old man who was critically unwell. He had completely blocked arteries to the heart that could not be treated by keyhole technique.
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