New Hope Offered to Patients with Severe Aortic Stenosis

Thursday, November 14, 2013 - 15:30 in Health & Medicine

The Heart Hospital Baylor Plano became the first in the nation to treat a patient with the catheter-based SAPIEN 3 heart valve using the transapical approach (through the ribs). This new phase of a clinical trial, also known as Partner II, may offer older patients with inoperable heart valve conditions a second chance at life.

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