Tag: Kauvery Hospital Alwarpet Performs World’s First Catheter-Based treatment

Kauvery Hospital Alwarpet Performs World’s First Catheter-Based treatment for failing Aortic and Pulmonary Valve Non-Surgical “Post ROSS Double Valve Rescue” for a man aged 58 in Hybrid Cath Lab Chennai, July 10th 2026: Kauvery Hospital, Alwarpet, has successfully treated two failing heart valves in a patient without repeat open-heart surgery, in what is believed to be the world's first reported completely catheter-based treatment following a Ross procedure. The procedure was performed on a 58-year-old man who had undergone a complex heart valve operation nearly 25 years ago. He had previously undergone the Ross procedure, in which the patient's own pulmonary valve is moved to replace the diseased aortic valve (known as an aortic autograft), while the pulmonary valve is replaced w...