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first-ever balloon expandable transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) – (without open heart surgery) was performed on an 82 year old patient with Ischemic Heart Disease and poor lung function by Dr. Pandula Athauda-Arachchi Resident Consultant Interventional Cardiologist of Durdans Hospital. This was the first time that a procedure of this...

Durdans Hospital Colombo announced two successful adaptations of bone marrow stem cell therapy in treating heart failure due to obstructed arteries, a first ever in Sri Lanka. The hospital announced that it had used patients’ own bone marrow derived stem cells to treat heart conditions where traditional interventions were not...