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Heart-valve Repair
A successful valve repair surgery restores the heart to its normal working without the need for lifelong blood thinners. One of the few hospitals in the country that performs this surgery, the MIOT Centre for Thoracic and Cardio Vascular Care has performed over 400 mitral valve repairs with a 99% success rate.
Restoring the heart’s valves
Heart valve surgery is a procedure to treat heart valve disease. In heart valve disease, one or more of the four heart valves that keep blood flowing in the correct direction through your heart do not function properly. During a heart valve surgery, surgeons repair or replace the malfunctioning valves to return them to normal working.
Heart valve repair surgery may be open or minimally invasive. The choice is made depending on several factors such as the patient’s age, general health and the conditions of the valves. A successful heart valve repair offers the patients several benefits: heart function is better preserved as it leaves the patient with normally functioning tissue; there is a lower risk of complication; and the need for life-long use of blood thinning medication (anti-coagulants) is eliminated.