Doctors at HN Reliance hospital, Girgaum, Mumbai have repaired damaged pulmonary valves in 2 patients using a minimally invasive procedure called Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve Replacement (TPVR).

Both patients, 31 years old, were born with congenital heart defects that had lately worsened the pulmonary valves. Both needed valve replacements, but the good news was that their procedures did not require surgery. Doctors instead tried the minimally invasive procedure, that involves sending a bioprosthetic pulmonary valve via a catheter and placing it in the opening between the heart's chamber and the pulmonary artery. The procedure, however, is challenging and took 6 hours in one patient and 4.5 hours in the other. 

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