People traveling from all over Georgia, bordering states and beyond to have robotic surgery with Northeast Georgia Health System (NGHS) have pushed NGHS past the 25,000th surgery milestone – which puts the system’s robotic surgery program among the top 10 hospitals in the southeastern United States. More than 50 surgeons use NGHS’ nine da Vinci […]
Patients seeking surgery in Georgia will soon have access to the newest and most advanced robotic technology close to home. Northeast Georgia Medical Center (NGMC) Gainesville will be the first hospital in Georgia to acquire the da Vinci 5 surgical system as a robotic surgical option. “The da Vinci 5 will be an exciting addition […]
GAINESVILLE, Ga. – A Habersham County firefighter/paramedic is back on the job after getting a new heart valve in a robotic surgery that was the first of its kind ever done in Georgia. Brian Mills underwent a totally endoscopic aortic valve replacement (TEAVR) at Northeast Georgia Medical Center (NGMC) Gainesville, and he was able to […]
Robotic heart surgery is becoming more common these days, but is it as safe as traditional heart surgery? We’re answering that question in today’s blog with a look at robotic heart surgery survival rates. Any type of surgery involving a robot may sound like it’s straight out of a science fiction thriller. When the surgery […]
Gainesville natives Don and Dot Pirkle had no idea their first date to a Christmas service in 2016 would lead to a life-saving robotic heart surgery for a stranger seven years later. Timing is Everything Don and Dot Pirkle, who both lost spouses in 2015, attended a church program during the holiday season for people […]
You need to have a heart procedure performed in the near future and know that robotic heart surgery is an option. But there isn’t a robotic heart surgeon nearby. What are your options? If you’ve talked with your cardiologist or a cardiothoracic surgeon and know that robotic heart surgery is an option for the type […]
You underwent a septal myectomy to treat hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Now what? Any surgical procedure requires some amount of recovery time, and septal myectomy is no different. The length of your recovery and how you feel as you recover will vary somewhat, but we answer a few common questions about what recovery looks like below. Is […]
Offering patients many benefits, robotic heart surgery can sound too good to be true. If a heart surgery is in your future, you may wonder whether you’re a candidate for this innovative type of surgery. There’s no one-size-fits-all answer to this question! As with any type of surgical procedure, the decision about the type of […]
If you’ve been diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, your cardiologist may recommend septal myectomy to treat the condition. Does that mean you’ll be having open-heart surgery? The short answer is: Maybe, but maybe not. While septal myectomy has traditionally been performed as an open-heart procedure, new innovations in performing the procedure offer a less-invasive option for […]
Heart surgeries that used to require long incisions and months of recovery can now be performed in Gainesville through tiny 8-millimeter incisions – about the diameter of an ink pen – with much faster recovery times. Georgia Heart Institute’s surgeons at Northeast Georgia Physicians Group (NGPG) Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery are now offering minimally-invasive, robotic […]
Have you ever heard of the mitral valve? Unless you’ve been diagnosed with mitral valve disease, it might be unfamiliar to you. But if you’ve been told you have mitral valve disease – mitral valve regurgitation or mitral valve stenosis – you may wonder what this valve does and what happens when it malfunctions. We’ll […]