Posted: May 14, 2021 6:00 AM AT | Last Updated: May 14
The new interventional radiology suites at the QEII let teams of medical professionals work together to perform minimally invasive procedures.(Submitted by the QEII Foundation)
A Nova Scotia woman is the first person in Atlantic Canada to have a special procedure called AngioVac to treat a blood infection near her heart, rather than open-heart surgery.
Ceilidh Mailman started to feel awful late in 2020, as if she had a terrible flu, before she learned she had endocarditis, a colony of bacteria growing on her heart valve. The infection spread from her heart to her shoulder and lung.