A heart transplant is a life-saving surgery for end-stage heart failure performed only for patients in which other treatments have proven to be ineffective. Dr. Sujay Shad, (MBBS, MS, RCPS, FRCS (Cardiothoracic Surgery)) is an expert in performing heart transplant surgeries and he has helped save the lives of many heart patients after the surgery. In this invasive procedure, the diseased or defective heart is replaced with a healthy heart received from an organ donor. It is performed under…

Aorta is the major artery of the heart that is responsible for the transfer of oxygen-rich blood from the left ventricle of the heart to different parts of the body. Aortic surgery is an invasive procedure to repair an aortic aneurysm (an enlarged aorta) and to treat aortic valve diseases including aortic stenosis (the narrowing of the aortic valve, thereby limiting the blood flow) and aortic valve regurgitation (not proper closure of the aortic valve leading to backflow of the blood into…