Heart valve placement surgery
Heart valves regulate blood flow within the heart to enable the heart to work efficiently. There are many diseases that affect heart valves, the most famous are heart valve regurgitation and heart valve stenosis. Professor Dr. Mohammed El-Ghannam, a consultant of Open Heart Surgery and Minimally Invasive Surgery, is one of the most prominent surgeons in Egypt who diagnoses heart valve diseases with high accuracy and performs heart valve placement surgery, whether using the traditional method or minimally invasive surgery.Heart valve disease
There are 4 types of heart valve disease as the following:- Valve stenosis: The valve tissue becomes thicker or stiffer, making the valve opening narrower.
- Valve regurgitation: The valve does not close tightly, causing blood to leak in the opposite direction.
- Valve relaxation: The valve becomes flexible and stretched, and does not close effectively leading to regurgitation.
- Congenital obstruction: the valve is absent, and instead, there is a layer of hard tissue that obstructs the flow of blood between the two chambers of the heart.
Heart valve placement surgery with Dr. Mohammed El-Ghannam
At present, there are two methods of surgery to replace damaged heart valves, they are:- Open heart surgery
- Minimally invasive surgery