While heart surgery is a treatment option for most heart diseases, it doesn’t mean the disease is cured. The recovery process can be long, and can involve drastic lifestyle changes, if you want to prevent a recurrence of heart disease. So how do doctors walk their patients through this process? We find out more from Dr Hardip Singh, consultant cardiothoracic surgeon from Sunway Medical Centre.

Produced by: Lim Sue Ann

Presented by: Meera Sivasothy

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