Celebrating Good Citizenship with a 'Purple Kind Of Style' (Video) - Patch.com

Celebrating Good Citizenship with a 'Purple Kind Of Style' (Video)
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Robby Pechillo is one of thousands of American children suffering from Pulmonary Valve Stenosis, a disease that has left him without a working valve in his heart. The condition is difficult to live through but there is hope for Robby, 6, ...

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Florida Hospital Pepin Heart Institute is the First in Hillsborough County to ... - MarketWatch (press release)

Florida Hospital Pepin Heart Institute is the First in Hillsborough County to ...
MarketWatch (press release)
TAVR is performed on a beating heart and does not require cardio-pulmonary bypass or opening the chest like traditional valve surgery. While up to 1.5 million people in the US suffer from aortic stenosis, approximately 500000 are like Marjorie and ...

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CryoLife to Acquire Hemosphere - MarketWatch (press release)

CryoLife to Acquire Hemosphere
MarketWatch (press release)
CryoLife's CryoValve® SG pulmonary heart valve, processed using CryoLife's proprietary SynerGraft® technology, has FDA 510(k) clearance for the replacement of diseased, damaged, malformed, or malfunctioning native or prosthetic pulmonary valves.

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Florida Hospital Pepin Heart Institute is the First in Hillsborough County to ... - EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)

Florida Hospital Pepin Heart Institute is the First in Hillsborough County to ...
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
TAVR is performed on a beating heart and does not require cardio-pulmonary bypass or opening the chest like traditional valve surgery. While up to 1.5 million people in the US suffer from aortic stenosis, approximately 500000 are like Marjorie and ...

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Heart valve treatment to help sickest patients at KU hospital - KC Community News

Heart valve treatment to help sickest patients at KU hospital
KC Community News
Sapien is the first valve approved in the United States that doesn't require open-heart surgery to place in a patient's chest. The hospital is one of the few approved to use this procedure to treat aortic stenosis, a fatal disease found in millions of ...

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Blue baby gets a new lease of life - Times of India

Blue baby gets a new lease of life
Times of India
The blood flow to the lungs was 99% blocked due to a defective valve, called critical pulmonary stenosis, which required an urgent procedure to save the baby's life. The procedure was done at the hospital by a team led by Dr Prem Alva, children's heart ...
Mangalore: Rare Cardiac Procedure at AJ Hospital Saves Day-old Baby Daijiworld.com

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Some valve patients are too sick for TAVI or surgery - TheHeart.Org

Some valve patients are too sick for TAVI or surgery
TheHeart.Org
On April 29 at the American Association of Thoracic Surgery 2012 Annual Meeting, Miller gave a presentation entitled "[Transcatheter aortic-valve replacement] TAVR has a limited role in the treatment of patients with severe aortic stenosis" [1].

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Donations pour in for poorly pet puppy's surgery - This is Somerset

Donations pour in for poorly pet puppy's surgery
This is Somerset
... was born with pulmonary aortic stenosis, a heart defect which causes the pet to collapse two or three times a day. The illness can be treated with a £3000 corrective procedure that has high success rates. Mr Warr said the illness means the valves ...

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Fifteen-year experience with minimally invasive approach for reoperations ... - The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Fifteen-year experience with minimally invasive approach for reoperations ...
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Results: Mitral repair frequency increased during each 5-year interval of our experience (1996–2000, 43%; 2001–2005, 53%; 2006–2010, 72%; P = .019), including 80% of native mitral valves without stenosis. Concomitant procedure frequency, most commonly ...

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