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Durdans Heart Centre performs five successful TAVI cardiac procedures for the first time in SL Source:Island Durdans Heart Centre has reached a landmark by performing five successful TAVI (Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation) cardiac procedures, while the patients were under local anaesthesia, for the first time in Sri Lanka. Dr. Pandula Athauda-Arachchi became the first Sri Lankan, fully independent specialist to have implanted TAVI valves under this procedure. He is also credited with implanting devices in t0wo different platforms and performing Sri Lanka’s first TAVI for morphologically abnormal bicuspid valves as well as the normal tricuspid valves. ...