Dr Voon Chi Yen

01/05/2025

We are pleased to announce that Dr Voon Chi Yen, Resident Cardiologist at Timberland Medical Centre was selected as Faculty Member for the prestigious 30th Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics Asia-Pacific (TCTAP 2025) conference in Seoul, Korea.

During this premier cardiology event, Dr. Voon served as panelist for complex live PCI cases and participated in abstract competition evaluations, contributing his expertise alongside leading international cardiologists. This distinguished invitation reflects both Dr. Voon's professional standing and our institution's commitment to advancing cardiovascular medicine.

01/10/2024

12/09/2024

This young gentleman presented with recent heart attack. Coronary angiogram showed severe bifurcation stenosis (>95% stenosis) at the junction between proximal & mid LAD involving ostial D1 (Medina 1,1,1). This severe bifurcation stenosis was carefully prepared & successfully treated with DCB. It was not an easy job! But again, no stent implanted!

05/09/2024

Another Chronic Total Occlusion, CTO (100% stenosis) at mLAD was successfully treated with Drug Coated Balloon. No stent implanted. The patient is recovering well.

26/06/2024

Aspiration thrombectomy is indicated during percutaneous coronary intervention in Acute Coronary Syndrome patients with high thrombus burden.

A young patient presented with anterior myocardial infarction. Urgent coronary angiogram showed 100% stenosis at the proximal segment in one of his major coronary arteries - Left Anterior Descending artery, LAD.

Aspiration thrombectomy was performed & showed mixture of fresh & old thrombus (clot). It was then followed by careful lesion preparation. Finally, DCB was deployed with no stent needed.

21/06/2024

Sometimes, I may need certain tools (e.g. rotablation, orbital atherectomy, intravascular lithotripsy or IVL etc) for lesion preparation during coronary angioplasty especially in a severely calcified stenosis.

Today, I performed the first intravascular lithotripsy (IVL) at Timberland Medical Centre. It was a severe & heavily calcified stenosis at a dominant Right Coronary Artery (RCA) & was only decided after routine balloon angioplasty failed to achieve optimal result. It was then followed by a DES implantation.