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‘UFO’ procedure propels cardiac surgeons
into neITwTRANtSeFOrRrMiAtTIoONry

Healthy and active with no history of Christopher Feindel, Christopher underwent what has
been dubbed the “UFO surgery” – underscoring just
hReaErSt tErAouRbCleH, feAwNcDouIldNhNaOveVpAreTdIiOctNed how rare the more than 10 hour surgical procedure was.
“He would have died anywhere else,” says Dr.
that Christopher Scott of Scarborough Badiwala, Cardiac Surgeon, PMCC. “This story is an
would quickly spiral into a life and example of what we are capable of here.”
death struggle, while becoming a Dr. Feindel, Cardiac Surgeon, PMCC, calls it the
“medical rarity” that pushed cardiac surgeons at the “worst case I have seen in my 30-year-career.”

uPnetfearmMiluianrkgrCoaurndMdiaItcCoCHtreEynNtarneEd(RPsaMINveCTtCEh)eGt3oR3cA-hyTeaarIOtr-noNeldw’,s life. Link to full story: click here.

Led by cardiac surgeons, Dr. Mitesh Badiwala and Dr.

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Dr. Mitesh Badiwala, Cardiac Surgeon, Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, helped Bringing UHN into Focus
lead a multi-disciplinary medical team in a complicated “marathon” surgery on
Christopher Scott, 33, whose heart was extensively damaged and had to be rebuilt.
(Photo: UHN)

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