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New Heart Valve Replacement Options to Come

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Repairing damaged aortic valves may be a much safer procedure in the future, if experimental methods now in development prove successful. 
 
Instead of surgically opening the chest and heart, doctors are trying various ways of threading replacement heart valves into place through small incisions in the body. 
 
The diseased valve is not removed, but serves to hold the new one in place. The heart is not stopped during the procedure and surgical recovery time is greatly reduced. 
 
It is too soon to know the long-term prognosis of this type of repair, and the surgical technique is still being perfected. 
 

'Closed' Heart Surgery Offers Less Invasive Option

FOX News - 4/3/2006 1:27 PM

Dramatic experiments, in a few hospitals in the U.S., Canada and Europe, are designed to find easier ways to replace diseased heart valves that threaten the lives of tens of thousands of people every year. The experiments are starting with the aortic valve that is the heart's key doorway to the body.
 
The need for a less invasive alternative is great and growing. Already, about 50,000 people in the U.S. have open-heart surgery every year to replace the aortic valve. Surgeons saw the breastbone in half, stop the heart, cut out the old valve and sew in a new one. Even the best patients spend a week in the hospital and require two months or three months to recuperate.
 
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