Can I have a valve replacement if I have other diseases?

Can I have a valve replacement if I have other diseases? So when you are identified as an individual that has symptoms that may be attributable to aortic valve disease you will have a number of investigations both to confirm the diagnosis of aortic valve disease to include or exclude other concomitant diseases or pathologies that may be contributing to your presentation and also some other investigations determine the technical suitability of us performing this procedure on you. We then always discuss all patients in a large multi-disciplinary team that encompasses surgeons, cardiologists, general physicians and imaging specialists just to ensure that a TAVI is not only the right treatment for you i.e. it will make you feel better and hopefully live longer but also that it's technically suitable. In general it's very rare nowadays for patients to not be technically suitable for TAVI. We do have a number of routes that we can use to advance and deliver valve disease but also by definition because it is minimally invasive often patients that are precluded from more invasive procedures, for example aortic valve surgery, are suitable for TAVI. So this revolutionary technology has meant that many more patients are suitable for treatment in comparison to historical surgery alone.