Major Milestone as St Andrew’s Passes 1000 TAVI Heart Procedures
St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital’s cardiac team celebrated 1,000 Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) procedures in March 2023 making St Andrew’s the first private hospital in Queensland to achieve this milestone. In 2015, Dr Karl Poon and Dr Alex Incani were the first to provide the TAVI procedure at St Andrew’s. In March, less than […]
TAVI Teaching Centre of Excellence
Seven years after becoming Queensland’s first private hospital to perform a Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI), the CardioVascular Clinics team at St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital has been named a TAVI Teaching Centre of Excellence by Edwards Lifesciences. The designation signifies extensive TAVI experience, outcomes and the outstanding teaching contribution of St Andrew’s interventional cardiologists, […]
Truly a heart-warming story
When Alex (Dick) Wright suffered a massive heart attack, doctors said he wouldn’t be going home and they didn’t expect him to survive; but that he did. Last month, 20 years after his first heart attack, Dick shared his 93rd birthday cake with wife Lin and cardiologist Dr Alexander Incani at the CVC CardioVascular Clinics […]
Breakthrough heart procedure at St Andrew’s
Plucky 91-year-old Lois Griffiths never gave up hope when told she had aortic stenosis and there was no treatment available – due to her age, open heart surgery was not an option. One of our first TAVI patientsAortic stenosis is the narrowing of the heart’s aortic valve opening, which prevents normal blood flow. It is […]