Consultant Cardiac Surgeon
Mr Toufan Bahrami is nationally and internationally recognised in minimally invasive, endoscopic (keyhole) cardiac surgery including mitral valve repair and aortic valve replacement. He has completed between 3,000 and 4,000 surgical procedures on the heart.
Mr Bahrami’s expertise in cardiac and endoscopic surgery includes:
- mitral valve repair – Mr Bahrami trained and worked in France with Professor Alain Carpentier who pioneered the technique
- minimally invasive endoscopic mitral valve repair
- minimally invasive endoscopic coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) – MIDCAB
- endoscopic atraumatic coronary artery bypass – EndoACAB
- endoscopic vein harvesting
- endoscopic surgical treatment of atrial fibrillation
- minimally invasive aortic valve replacement (sutureless valve and Resilia valve)
Mr Bahrami gives all his patients a personalised approach to care. His multidisciplinary team evaluates every patient to first determine whether they need surgery and then appropriate guideline therapy and timing of intervention will be applied.
Mr Bahrami is at the forefront of developments in endoscopic minimally invasive heart surgery. Instead of conventional surgery, heart valves are replaced or repaired by gaining access to the heart through a small incision between the ribs. For this, he uses a thoracoscope to view the chest cavity and to guide his movements.
In addition, Mr Bahrami performs coronary artery bypass grafts (CABG) through a mini-incision on the side of the chest while the heart is beating (called off-pump CABG) rather than using a heart bypass machine.
These procedures offer the benefits of conventional open-heart surgery but with less traumatic injury (a smaller incision), a shorter stay in the hospital, a smaller and more aesthetic scar, and a much quicker recovery time.
Mr Bahrami has been the forerunner in utilising innovative surgical techniques, including:
- in 2007, he performed the first double-lung transplant from a non-heart-beating donor
- in 2007, he performed the UK’s first endoscopic vein harvesting surgery
- in 2014, he performed the first sutureless aortic valve replacement through a minimally invasive mini-thoracotomy
- in 2016, he implanted the first Inspiris Resilia aortic valve using a minimally invasive technique
- in 2017, he performed the first worldwide mitral valve repair, valve repair ablation and CABG using a minimally invasive technique
He is the lead surgeon in endoscopic and minimally invasive cardiac surgery with over 3000 minimally invasive procedures.
Mr Bahrami is the only surgeon in the UK performing totally endoscopic cardiac surgery through 3cm incision.
- minimally invasive, totally endoscopic mitral valve repair / replacement
- minimally invasive, totally endoscopic tricuspid valve repair / replacement
- minimally invasive, totally endoscopic aortic valve/ root replacement
- minimally invasive endoscopic assisted coronary artery bypass graft
- off-pump beating heart coronary artery bypass graft
- totally endoscopic/surgical treatment of atrial fibrillation
- complex aortic and mitral reoperations
