ROBOTIC ARMS can now go where doctors used to tread in the repair of the mitral heart valve.
The National Heart Centre here has successfully used a robotic system to mend the mitral valves of eight patients, about five per cent of the patients who need mitral valve operations in a year.
The mitral valve - a set of flaps to prevent the back flow of blood in the left chambers of the heart - needs to be repaired when it degenerates or grows faulty with disease.
