Patients too ill for open heart surgery will no longer have to leave Scotland for specialist treatment.
A new centre is being opened at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh for a procedure known as Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (Tavi), the Scottish Government said.
The operation is already available in Manchester and Belfast to Scottish patients if they are referred by a local health board.
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