multidisciplinary Heart Team

Sometimes we’re asked to do extraordinary or unprecedented things, and the case of Chris, a young 30-year-old man who was born with a complex congenital heart disease, is a good example. Chris only had one pumping chamber (ventricle) to his heart, as opposed to the normal two. The main valve taking the blood out of the […]

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. She had previously undergone open heart surgery and her main problem now was that she had a leaky mitral valve. […]

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. He also had motor neurone disease, a potentially devastating nerve disorder, that was also affecting his chest. […]