Dr. Christie Tan Tiong Tee

MBBS (Spore) FRCS (Edin) FAMS (Spore) AM (Mal), Fellow Mayo Clinic (USA)

Core Procedures

• Insertion/removal of intra-aortic balloon
• Excision / Creation of Arterio- Venous Fistula
• Arterial Embolectomy
Heart
• Congenital heart disease - open heart surgery
• Congenital heart disease (complex) – open heart
• Coronary artery bypass graft
• Heart Valve Surgery: Repair / Replacement
• Heart block, inertion /replacement of pacemaker (permanent)
• Patent ductus arteriosus, ligation
• Pericardial disease, pericardiectomy
• Pericardial effusion, paracentesis / transthoracic drainage
• Pulmonary incompetence, pulmonary artery banding
• Aortic aneurysm, excision and insertion of graft
• Proximal aortic aneurysm, aortic root replacement with coronary artery re-implantation
• Surgical procedures for the correction of arrhythmia

Lung
• Pneumonectomy/lobectomy/segmental resection

Thorax
• Resection of rib and open exploration / Drainage of thoracic cavity
• Pectus excavatum/pectus carinatum, radical correction
• Mediastinal tumor resection
• Chest wall resection and reconstruction

Trachea
• Foreign body, removal
• Tracheostomy

Veins
• Arterio-venous fistula, dissection and ligation
• Arteriovenous shunt surgery
• Saphenous to femoral cross-leg bypass
• graft

Others
• Pleurodesis
• Temporary Pace Wire Insertion

Dr Tan graduated from the University of Singapore in 1977 and obtained his general surgical training in Singapore and Kent in the UK. His training in cardiac thoracic and vascular surgery began in 1982 under Prof HH Bentall at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School Hammersmith Hospital London. He further trained under Dr Hartzelll Schaff at the Mayo Clinic in the USA in 1990.

He has served in this speciality at the National Heart Centre in the Singapore General Hospital, the Hospital Besar Kuala Lumpur, the Klang General hospital, the National University Hospital, Mahkota Medical Centre Malacca, Mt Elizabeth Hospital, Gleneagles Hospital and the Tan Tock Seng Hospital in Singapore.

Having extensive experience in cardiac, thoracic and vascular surgery, his special interests are in the complex and redo coronary artery bypass surgery, complex and redo heart valve surgery, ascending and arch aortic surgery, complex and minimally invasive lung operations, complex vascular operations.