On July 23, 2014, Assoc. Prof. Sophon Napathorn, M.D., Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, and Director of King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, along with medical teams from The Cardiac Center, King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, held a press conference to announce a milestone success in developing cuttine-edge aortic stenosis surgery without open-chest surgery.This new cardiac surgery gives an alternative to patients with high risks as it helps increase surgery efficiency and minimize a recovery period from a few months to only few days. Currently there are 31 successful cases undergone this innovative surgery.
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