Govt ties up with pvt docs for complex surgery

Chennai | Saturday | 12th January, 2019

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Our team will continue to do more such complex surgeries free of cost," he said. "The team has helped Stanley hospital do a number of liver transplant surgeries. "The government paid for the raw materials and we did not levy service charge for the surgery or post-operative consultations. TAVI is now fast becoming one of the most often performed procedures among the elderly at private hospitals. A team of doctors from Heart Team India performed two Transcatheter aortic valve Implantation (TAVI), a minimally invasive procedure to replace a narrowed aortic valve that fails to open properly called as aortic valve stenosis or aortic stenosis at the government facility.This narrowing obstructs blood flow from the heart into the aorta and onward to the rest of the body..