Durdans Heart Centre recently concluded a breakthrough minimally invasive Transcatheter Arterial Valve Implantation (TAVI) on a patient with bicuspid valve. Bicuspid valves, a birth anomaly (two leaflets instead of the normal three), quickly leads to narrowing of the valve. The valve replacement was performed using a self-expanding Medtronic Evolut™ R self-expanding trans-catheter aortic heart valve.…
Early detection is important Research has shown that detection of hearing disorders before the first six months of a child’s life leads to better interventional outcomes than when detected after six months. In fact countries like the US practicing neonatal hearing screening for all newborns across the country further affirms its importance. Manthi Dissanayake, Audiologist…
Currently in Sri Lanka, 2.1 million people smoke and 12,351 people die annually from smoking which is about 10% of all deaths. Cardiovascular diseases are the most common way of death from tobacco (53%) especially in young. Most people start smoking early and the mean age of initiation of daily smoking is 20.6 years. Health…
