New treatment for severe aortic stenosis shown to save lives, researchers say
Wednesday, September 22, 2010 - 16:49
in Health & Medicine
Implantation of a new bioprosthetic-tissue valve into the hearts of patients who have severe aortic stenosis and are too sick or too old for open-heart surgery has been found to both save lives and improve the quality of those lives, according to a new multicenter study, to be published online at 2 p.m. Pacific time today in the New England Journal of Medicine.