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HISTORICAL FACTS: Former chef undergoes pioneering life changing heart surgery | History Defined

Heart Surgery Surgery

Pioneering heart surgery has been carried out on a former chef that is set to change his life. The complex heart operation has been performed in few hospitals around the UK but was carried out for the first time at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW).

Seton Spencer, 69, had mitral annular calcification (MAC), reports CoventryLive - a condition where the mitral valve inside the heart becomes leaky and narrowed due to calcium deposits around the edge of the valve. This prevents the organ from functioning properly.

When the calcium deposits surround the valve completely, this condition is often considered inoperable with standard open heart surgery due to the difficulty in placing sutures through the hard calcium when inserting a new mitral valve prosthesis (artificial heart valve).

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