Interview with Pye Sen Tan, CEO, Herbal Science
Herbal Science started in 1985 as team of two pharmacists and now represents a large 200-person operation. What have been the main challenges for the company in this transformation and…
Institut Jantung Negara (IJN) was established in 1992, as a cardiovascular and thoracic center. It has always tried to keep abreast with current advances and benchmarked with internationally acclaimed, established, advanced centers.
It has kept itself of international standards in quality in healthcare, presently accredited Joint Commission International JCI, Malaysian Society for Quality in Healthcare MSQH 3rd edition 2008 and ISO 9001:2008.
In our attempts to keep abreast with advances in cardiovascular and thoracic medicine, some of the recent procedures, surgeries, services, program are illustrated below:
Services:
Catheter-based Mitral Valve Repair with the MITRACLIP
Mitral regurgitation (MR) is a condition whereby the mitral valve leaks. As a result, a significant volume of blood is pushed backward into the left atrium. Left unattended, mitral regurgitation can lead to progressive enlargement of the heart and will lead to heart failure. Common causes for these leakages are usually either functional or degenerative. Conventional treatment of severe MR will be surgery, in the form of either mitral valve repair or replacement. However, this will require an open heart surgery. On occasions, the risk of surgery is high especially when there is coexisting medical conditions or advanced age.
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