St. Paul’s patients the world’s first to undergo new type of heart-valve surgery
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A St. Paul’s Hospital cardiac surgeon has pioneered and performed a minimally invasive surgery on patients with serious heart-valve issues, eliminating the need for open-heart surgery and leading to quicker recuperation.
Over two days in mid-January, Dr. Cheung successfully implanted a device known as a transcatheter tricuspid valve into four elderly, high-risk patients with tricuspid regurgitation (TR) – the first people in the world to undergo the surgery.
Dr. Cheung inserted the valve, guided into position with a tube, or catheter, through the jugular vein on the right side of the neck. Each procedure lasted under two hours, with the implant itself taking less than 15 minutes.
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