Valve implantation on the beating heart

Monday, April 20, 2009 - 10:43 in Health & Medicine

Transcatheter valve implantation is a newly developed technique for the curative treatment of high-grade aortic stenosis. It is likely to be of benefit especially to elderly, multimorbid patients for whom the risk of open heart surgery would be too great.

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