Bloodless Heart Surgery with TAVI Method

In cardiovascular surgery, especially without bypass and heart valve surgery, the patient can be operated with his own blood without any additional blood transfer. Since there is no external blood transfusion, the risk of infection is significantly reduced and the risk of a blood-borne disease is also reduced.



Before classical bypass surgery, the patient normally needed 4-5 units of blood and blood transfusions. However, thanks to this method, which has been widely used in our country and in the world for a while, it can be operated in the bypass surgery without the need for additional blood from the patient's own blood.

Approximately 190 hospitals around the world are undergoing "Bloodless Heart Surgery Procedures" without blood transfusion at Liv Hospital. 88 percent of patients with heart surgery blood and blood products (TDP, platelets, etc.) are not used. In some hospitals, 2 units of blood transfusion is described as "bloodless surgery"; In Liv Hospital, 0 transfusion is defined as "bloodless surgery".

Bloodless surgery shortens the patient's recovery time and protects the person from HIV, hepatitis, which can be seen due to lung and kidney failure, infection and blood transfusion, which may develop in the long term due to blood transfer. In addition, because the patient recovered more quickly after surgery, the duration of hospital stay is also decreasing. Research shows that the use of blood and blood products in heart surgeries increases the survival rate.