The first robot-assisted double heart valve replacement was carried out in the
Chennai region of India at Chettinad Health City. This is the first instance of such a procedure using
robotic surgery. The surgery was carried out by Dr
R. Ravi Kumar
Dr R Ravi Kumar is an Indian heart surgeon, and a pioneer in robot-assisted heart surgery.
Dr Kumar has done varied robotic heart surgical procedures like: robotic mitral valve repair and replacement, adult ASD closures, aortic valve replac ...
, the director of the Institute of Cardiovascular Disease and head of the Robotic Surgery Centre at
Chettinad.
References
External links
Press conference discussing the surgery
Computer-assisted surgery
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