Apollo Hospitals, Visakhapatnam has successfully performed first ever Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement (TMVR) in Andhra Pradesh. According to Apollo Hospitals, a 61-year-old woman successfully underwent a Trans-catheter Mitral Valve Replacement (TMVR).
The procedure was performed in two hours by the doctors of Apollo Hospitals and the patient recovered well.
A valve in valve transcatheter mitral valve replacement (ViV-TMVR) is a mitral valve replacement procedure that allows Cardiologist to replace a diseased previously surgically implanted mitral valve with a new valve without surgery. The patient had previously undergone open heart surgery with replacement of the mitral valve along with aortic valve replacement in 2013.
After relevant investigations, it was found that the replaced mitral valve had degenerated over time and required another replacement. Since the patient was at very high risk for a repetitive open-heart surgery, a percutaneous approach was used to replace the diseased mitral valve.
