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.