Dr Alex Incani and Dr Karl Poon were featured in the Senior Magazine in May 2019.
Please note the following amendments for the article:
- Second column: “TAVI is only available for patients aged over 80 years…” to “TAVI is currently main restricted to patients deemed too high risk for surgery.”
- Second column: “the Hope for Hearts campaign is a call to .,..” “the H4H campaign is a call for patient and doctor awareness of aortic stenosis and the benefit of a less invasive therapy of TAVI”
- Third column: “there needs to be more awareness….to be superior to open heart surgery” to “… has proven to be superior to open heart surgery in certain subset of patients in experienced hands”
- Four column: “could drive a car by the following Wednesday…” to “IN ONE MONTH!!!”
- Please note, the patient wasn’t operated on by either Dr Alex Incani or Dr Karl Poon as the patient was from NSW. Both Dr Incani and Dr Poon were quoted alongside the patient’s story.
- Final column: “Medicare rebate is currently only….not covered by private health insurance” to “is covered by private health insurance in approved institutions by approved practitioners”
