Heart Patients Do Better with Non-Surgical Valve Replacement Than Standard Medical Therapy
Monday, March 26, 2012 - 09:00
in Health & Medicine
Patients diagnosed with aortic stenosis who are too sick for open-heart surgery have better survival rates and an improved quality of life after undergoing catheter-based heart valve replacement than if the patients had been treated with standard medical therapy, according to a study authored by a Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute physician based on results from a multicenter clinical trial.