Dr Anbarasu Mohanraj - Heart Surgery

  Heart Valve Repair - F.A.Qs What is the common surgerical treatment for Valvular Heart Disease? The treatment for Valvular Heart diseases starts with Medical treatment once a diagnosis is made. When the disease becomes critical, your doctors advice surgical treatment of the problem. Valves can be dilated with balloons called Balloon Valvotomy if the valvular heart disease is straightforward. If there is severe disease, your Heart Team may decide on surgical intervention. Traditionally Valvular Heart disease was treated with Surgical Replacement of the valve. This involves removing your own native valve and replacing it with a synthetic valve. What are the recent developments in Surgery for Valvular Heart Disease? Valve Repair and Percutaneous Replacement are the recent advances. In Valve Repair, your surgeon makes use of the tissues in your own valve which is diseased and repairs the valve to a perfect condition. Though technically challenging, valve repair yields excellent long ...

 Mitral Valve Repair and not Valve Replacement When it comes to Heart Valve Surgery, the common belief is that heart valves are usually replaced. The replacement of heart valve is done with artificial valves. It's either a Mechanical valve (aka) Metal valve or Biological valve (aka) Tissue valve. The  advantage of a Mechanical valve is that, it's durability is quite good. But patients with a Mechanical valve implanted in them need to be on lifelong blood thinning tablets like Acitrom or Warfarin. Managing these blood thinning tablets is quite tough and needs very close monitoring.    PT & INT test is to be done at least once in a month and the bleeding and blood clot formations due to these drugs is very high, especially in a country like ours where the uniform access to quality health care is difficult.  The survival of patients with heart valve replaced is quite poor due to the anti-coagulation related complications and n...