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| Pioneering heart surgery trialled | Pioneering heart surgery trialled |
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| Heart surgeons in Leicester are to perform the first aortic keyhole heart valve replacement in the UK. | |
| The technique has only been used at four other hospitals in the world before - in Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Canada. | The technique has only been used at four other hospitals in the world before - in Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Canada. |
| Cardiologists at Glenfield Hospital will replace the valve in an operation that is less invasive as it does not involve open-heart surgery. | Cardiologists at Glenfield Hospital will replace the valve in an operation that is less invasive as it does not involve open-heart surgery. |
| The new technique implants the valve using a catheter in a short operation. | The new technique implants the valve using a catheter in a short operation. |
| 'Reducing trauma' | |
| Gladys Adams, 89, will be the first patient to undergo the surgery on Tuesday. | Gladys Adams, 89, will be the first patient to undergo the surgery on Tuesday. |
| Keyhole heart valve surgery to replace defective pulmonary heart valves was pioneered at Great Ormond Street Hospital in 2002. | |
| Professor Peter Weissberg, Medical Director of the British Heart Foundation, said: "We're very pleased to see this technology now being used more widely in the UK to treat elderly people with life-threatening aortic heart valve disease. | |
| "Reducing the trauma of treatment by using non-invasive techniques has huge potential particularly for babies and elderly people, who are often less likely to cope well with open heart surgery procedures." | |
| 'Biggest invention' | 'Biggest invention' |
| Dr Jan Kovac, consultant cardiologist at Glenfield Hospital, said: "In the past, patients had to endure open heart surgery and would have been in hospital for at least a week after their operation. | Dr Jan Kovac, consultant cardiologist at Glenfield Hospital, said: "In the past, patients had to endure open heart surgery and would have been in hospital for at least a week after their operation. |
| "This new catheter treatment is much quicker and in most cases patients will be back home within a few days of having the operation. | "This new catheter treatment is much quicker and in most cases patients will be back home within a few days of having the operation. |
| "This technique is the biggest invention in cardiology over the last 30 years since the introduction of the coronary angioplasty." | "This technique is the biggest invention in cardiology over the last 30 years since the introduction of the coronary angioplasty." |
| Heart valve replacements are the second most common heart operation carried out at Glenfield Hospital after coronary heart bypasses. | |