Diseased Heart Valve Replaced Through Small Chest Incision On 91-Year-Old Patient

Friday, February 20, 2009 - 23:28 in Health & Medicine

When a 91-year-old man was diagnosed with severe blockage of his heart valve -- hardening that is formally known as aortic valve stenosis -- open-heart surgery was out of the question. He'd already survived quadruple bypass while in his 50s, and having lived almost a century,he wasn't a good candidate for heart surgery for many reasons.

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