Media information
For immediate release
Date: September 2, 2008
Fifth Heart Patient Ready To Go Home
Waikato
Hospital's fifth recipient of the Transcatheter Aortic
Valve
Implantation was 79-year-old Tokoroa man Graeme
Gubb.
Mr Gubb, also known as Taff, has recovered extremely
well from his
operation on Friday and is due to return
home to Tokoroa later today.
A photo of Mr Gubb and
Cardiac Care clinical nurse manager Sue Martin,
plus a
sound bite from Mr Gubb post-surgery are available by
visiting
http://www.waikatodhb.govt.nz/news/pageid/2145841063/Fifth_heart_patient_ready_to_go_home
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