| 07 Dec 2007 |
| His Heart In Good Hands (extracted from The New Paper, 7 December 2007) |
| Study shows doctors here well equipped for heart surgery. Former police superintendent Mr Ong Lian Tat is a lucky man to be alive. On his 64th birthday in September 2002, he suffered a massive heart attack. He made it, in no small part, due to his surgeon's expertise. Said Mr Ong: "It was Dr Kenny Sin who operated on me and saved my life."
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| 07 Dec 2007 |
| Older men form bulk of heart surgery patients (The Business Times, 7 December 2007) |
| The mortality rate after heart surgery in Singapore was deemed comparable to that in other developed countries such as US, UK and Australia. The observed mortality rate at NHC from 2001 - 2005 is 2.6%, well below the predicted mortality rate of 5.1%. Ministry of Health sheds light on patient profile in paper.
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| 01 Dec 2007 |
| S’pore miracle HEART patients (The Straits Times, 1 December 2007) |
1) Vindan Sahadevan, 46, is the only one here to go back to work after getting a heart transplant in place of a pump
2) Loa Nguang Peng, 47, is at work 9 hours a day, five years after forgoing heart pump
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| 01 Oct 2007 |
| ‘My chest felt tight, I couldn’t move’ (The Straits Times, 10 October 2007) |
| Former construction site supervisor Lee Chai Hak, 54, tells Lee Hui Chieh about the day the wall of his heart artery split and changed his life forever.
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| 26 Sep 2007 |
| How the 'kiss of life' gives the gift of life (The Straits Times, 26 September 2007) |
| CPR is key is saving the lives of people in cardiac arrest. Find out why more people should be trained in it.
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| 11 Sep 2007 |
| For over-80s, it's a high-risk op (The New Paper, 11 September 2007) |
| The article highlighted that the average risk of death from bypass surgery in octogenarians is high compared to younger patients. NHC performs about seven to eight bypass operations every year on those aged 80 and above. Most of these are first timers. 23 patients aged 80 and above have been operated on at NHC from 2004 to 2006. An average of over 550 bypass operations is done at NHC a year, which accounts for two thirds of the surgical procedures performed at NHC.
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| 08 Sep 2007 |
| Cardiac Surgery Trial Draws Over 2,000 Global Patients (The Straits Times, 8 September 2007) |
MORE than 2,000 heart patients from around the world, including Singaporeans, are taking part in the largest-ever cardiac surgery trial.
Called Surgical Treatments for Ischaemic Heart Failure (Stitch), the trial has 2,136 patients worldwide, with 10 per cent from Asian countries.
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| 23 Aug 2007 |
| Guinea pig? No, op is…DO OR DIE (The New Paper, 23 August 2007) |
| Surgeon punches hole in heart in first such operation here
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| 17 Jul 2007 |
| Doctors stop his blood flow for 45 mins (The New Paper, 17 July 2007) |
| Doctors had stopped his blood circulation for 45 minutes in order to operate on him.
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| 25 Apr 2007 |
| Monitoring the body’s organs (Business Times, 25 April 2007) |
| With technological advances over the years, devices have become increasingly sophisticated, leading to early detection of illnesses and speedier diagnosis with greater accuracy.
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| 17 Apr 2007 |
| Opt out? Not in her family (The New Paper, 17 April 2007) |
| Amended Human Organ Transplant Act (Hota) saved her life..
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| 17 Apr 2007 |
| This 19-year-old saved by new heart (The Straits Times, 17 April 2007) |
| Jason's new lease of life came on Dec 28...
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| 14 Apr 2007 |
| Listen, your heart may be telling you something (Business Times, 14 April 2007) |
| The National Heart Centre did a study on those who collapsed suddenly and without prior symptoms, and noted that 80 per cent of them had underlying blocked arteries that went undetected.
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| 04 Apr 2007 |
| Bypass could have spared pain (Mind Your Body, The Straits Times, 4 April 2007) |
| Mr Lim Ah Kwah might have been spared this experience if he had taken his doctor’s advice to have a bypass three months earlier. Instead, he opted to have a stent put in.
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| 04 Apr 2007 |
| Fallacies of the heart (Mind Your Body, The Straits Times, 4 April 2007) |
| Even though so much is written about heart disease, false perceptions still exist. Dr Aaron Wong, 42, a senior consultant in the Department of Cardiology at the National Heart Centre, examines the four most common myths and debunks them.
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| 11 Feb 2007 |
| Trouble with your ticker? (Sunday Times, 11 February 2007) |
| The National Heart Centre (NHC) is the main centre here for implanting mechanical heart, since it became available here in 2001.
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| 31 Jan 2007 |
| New Device, New Hope (The New Paper, 31 January 2007) |
| Three of her arteries were blocked. Then the latest stent on the market came to her rescue.
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| 22 Jan 2007 |
| NHC angiography system to be upgraded (Business Times, 22 January 2007) |
| The new imaging system with rotational capabilities enables doctors to have clearer three-dimensional views of blood vessels, and its StentBoost patented software also allows operators to make more accurate diagnoses during stent procedures.
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| 19 Jan 2007 |
| $1m to train more Asian doctors here (Straits Times, 19 January 2007) |
| A FELLOWSHIP programme has been set up for doctors from Asia to come to Singapore for advanced training in specialised areas.
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| 16 Jan 2007 |
| A second shot at life (Today, 16 January 2007) |
| Just the right time for her heart transplant operation...
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