04/02/2025
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Esther Evans was joined by consultant cardiac surgeon, Ms Betsy Evans, who described:
- The reality of working as a cardiac surgeon
- The kind of cases she deals with
Ms Betsy Evans is a consultant cardiac surgeon at The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. She has a specialist interest in mitral valve repair, AF surgery and trans-catheter valve implantation for aortic and mitral valve disease.
Ms Evans continues to remain active in research and is Principle Surgical Investigator in Leeds Teaching Hospital Trusts currently for two international clinical trials:
- PRIMARY trial assessing the effectiveness of surgical MV repair and Transcatheter edge to edge repair (TEER) techniques in degenerative mitral valve disease
- The APOLLO-EU trial to assess the application of a novel transcatheter mitral valve implantation in high-risk non-surgical patients with mitral regurgitation.