Heart Health
The New Brunswick Heart Centre
The New Brunswick Heart Centre is the province's only tertiary cardiac care centre, providing cutting-edge care to a million Atlantic Canadians. The Foundation works with generous donors to equip the Heart Centre team with the latest technology, life-saving equipment, and innovation advancing cardiac and vascular care for patients.
For Moncton’s Norma Melanson, multiple complications with her pacemaker and endocarditis - an infection of the inner lining of the heart chamber and valves - would see her in Saint John to be a first for the New Brunswick Heart Centre.
That’s when Dr. Pozeg stepped in. “He reconstructed the valves,” Norma explains. Surviving the surgery, Norma later slipped into a coma. After 62 days in a coma, “When I woke up, I was expecting Christmas,” says Norma. Instead, a different kind of gift.
Dr. McGrath began his training in New Brunswick and continued it in Edmonton where he learned a new procedure to plug a leaky heart.
“We now have the ability to actually go in through a vein in the leg and up to the heart and plug the hole that way. That means the patient goes home later that day. They've got a tiny scar on their leg from a small puncture and beyond that, they're back to doing what they were doing before.”
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