A New Technique Proposed By Indian Cardiac Surgeon To Improve Safety Of A Difficult Heart Surgery

Aortic Root Enlargement (ARE) is a technically difficult surgery required in a few patients who need a larger size aortic valve replacement than possible with conventional methods. If an adequate sized valve is not put in – the patient will suffer from an iatrogenic aortic stenosis and can have a poor prognosis. There are generally 3 surgical methods of ARE – all 3 may not be possible in some specific subset of patients. Heart surgeons occasionally need to operate on a case who has already had a previous surgery which precludes the use of these techniques. Surgeons have been looking for a method to overcome this problem.

Dr. Harinder Singh Bedi – Director of Cardio Vascular Sciences at the Ivy Hospital in Mohali Punjab thought of an out of the box method for this problem. He devised a new method – now called the ‘ Bedi technique ’ to enlarge the aorta. He proposes an incision in the…