Transcatheter Heart Valve - ABC News Site

[johnnycake23]

Gang,

I just received this email about the transcathter heart valve procedure and wanted to share with everyone. Hope you find it interesting and/or helpful.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/OnCall/story?id=6589797&page=1

 

[Marguerite53]

Fantastic! Thanks for sharing. Modern medicine is an amazing thing.

Marguerite

 

[Jkm7]

I watched a piece they did on this story during the morning show.
The elderly patient, who received the new valve percutaneously, said she felt considerably better the first day after receiving her valve. She was too ill to have traditional OHS so was a good candidate for this new surgery and she did extremely well. They showed the actual film of them placing the valve. Amazing.

Very exciting stuff for us valvers.