https://www.HeartValveSurgery.com Patients who undergo heart valve repair or heart valve replacement operations may require a heart valve "reoperation" if their initial procedure fails. For patients, the process of going through a second (or third) operation can be confusing and frustrating.

To help educate patients about heart valve rereplacements and heart valve rerepairs using surgical and transcatheter techniques, we interviewed Dr. Nimesh Desai, a leading cardiac surgery and director of the Thoracic Aortic Surgery Research Program at Penn Medicine Heart & Vascular Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Important questions asked to Dr. Nimesh Desai during this video interview include:

1. Is it common that heart valve reoperations are performed at Penn Medicine? Is one type of reoperation more common than others? If so, please discuss.
2. Why might a patient need a heart valve reoperation?
3. What types of heart valve reoperations do you perform? Are any of those procedures minimally invasive using surgical or transcatheter techniques including TAVR, TMVR and valveinvalve?
4. How are heart valve reoperations different than initial primary procedures (e.g. process, access, risks, etc.)?
5. What are the outcomes for your patients that have needed heart valve reoperations?
6. What is your #1 piece of advice for a patient who needs a heart valve reoperation?

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