 One of the key questions patients consider when they are diagnosed with serious heart valve disease is, "Is there a safe approach to heart valve repair without surgery?"
I remember that question all too well. Personally, I was diagnosed with severe aortic stenosis and regurgitation of my aortic valve which eventually lead to my double, heart valve replacement via the Ross Procedure on December 21, 2005.
Stil, before I formalized my open-heart surgery procedure and selected my surgeon, I wanted to know if heart valve repair without surgery was possible.
I mean... .This is the world of nanotechnology. Medical science is rapidly advancing the pursuit and elimination of painful, traditional surgical processes.
Considering my day job as high technology consultant, I work with several electronics manufacturing companies that are building amazing machines to fix ailments and illnesses. Thus, I thought that heart valve repair without surgery must be possible.
Well. I researched the topic extensively when writing my book, The Patient's Guide To Heart Valve Surgery. To my knowledge there is no current approach for providing heart valve repair without surgery.
That being said, there are a number of newer, surgical approaches which minimize the pain, the risk, the healing time and the scar size of heart valve repair. These newer approaches to heart valve repair use robots and are commonly referred to as minimally invasive or non-invasive heart valve repair.
While these techniques are not heart valve repair without surgery, they appear to be very promising as an effective alternative to open-heart surgery techniques which typically require cracking the sternum (median sternotomy).
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