Long Life With Healthy Heart

Heart surgery patients recovery rate is very high even without treatment ...


Memorial Hospital Heart and Vascular Surgery Department of the Assoc. Dr. Harun Arbatlı, advanced age without heart surgery to cover the problem "solution with Percutaneous method" has information about.

Advanced age of the patient no longer cover the heart without surgery method can return to health. Especially in patients 90 years after emerging issues cover the costs of interventional procedures to patients are offered a quality of life.

Elderly patients can be corrected through surgery, did you cover the classic problem?

Surgery, advanced age has brought problems for patients. Elderly patients are usually linked to hardening of the arteries and body wear at the cover from time to time as often the aorta in the mitral cover is encountering serious problems. Solve this problem unfortunately can not always be possible with classical methods. Because a 90-year-old patient applied to cover replacement surgery is very risky. Complications may occur after surgery in patients of advanced age can cause bad results. As physicians are faced with such situations that many elderly patients are sometimes unable to operate them for terkediyoruz to fate. Many years of smoking, especially elderly patients with lung problems as well as other diseases that we can go. Besides, they have cancer operations, problems like diabetes that accompany the disease can be many. Such cases are elderly patients operated obstacle.

Cover for old age patients Is it possible to resolve problems without surgery?

Today, patients of advanced age can bring problems for the cover of less surgical trauma and a more direct way to implement a number of methods have been. 5 years with a history of the world and very important applications in several centers is called the Percutaneous interventional Aortik cover İmplantasyonu method will begin to be implemented in Turkey. Memorial Hospital Heart and Vascular Surgery, we as a team to further development of this method and the results become even more prominent in parallel with, these operations can be done in our country are working hard to make.

Percutaneous (without surgery) method is suitable for patients age from which direction?

With this method the patient or with a very small cut or no cut without surgical repair or replacement surgery is done without a cover. During the process to open the chest, the heart stopping is very difficult for patients to be tolerated instead of the heart at these things will pass by later cases before the cover is expanded through a balloon. By passing the tip of the heart or the groin vessels in the area called apeks a small cut is made into a special chamber is compressed into the cover region is also the cover. All these actions as interventional percutaneous method is carried out just pretend Angio. Cardiologists and heart surgeons will be found in a search application, is more complicated and more equipment will be needed. Maybe later when you sit down and a very good way to get results is head of the carotid arteries in the neck by passing that this process may be done. Memorial Heart and Vascular Surgery as we ourselves are trying to develop has a number of methods.

Rate of elderly is increasing steadily

Population is growing steadily in the years rates. At the moment in Europe and America, one of the largest expenditures and health expenditures, especially from old age diseases to bring solutions to these problems in the past governments to action. The same issue of the rapid increase in the elderly population, will be valid for Turkey after a while. 10-20 years later, the same problem next door to steal our country. Be prepared to take our place in this, the technology is very important. Cover with lid Aort Percutaneous repair and replacement implantasyonu method results brought the laughing face in the future a method can be applied to young patients. But now that the classical surgical methods. These are very developed compared to the previous year.

How many hours of percutaneous application methods İmplantasyon aorta cover? How long the patient return to normal life can be?

Improvement of the patient after surgery with percutaneous cover rate is really high. The patient's disease or another transaction the next day or several days after the recovery, you can return to normal life. People have other health problems even in intensive care after a classic surgical operations in a short time much better. The method currently is being implemented to resolve problems in the aorta cover. Cover issues in the future mitral studies showing there is the use of percutaneous methods. The right side of the heart, pulmonary cover especially with small children or congenital heart disease patients in a move operation that is the use of percutaneous cover.