Sutureless aortic valve replacement a North American first

Friday, May 18, 2012 - 16:30 in Health & Medicine

A surgical milestone was reached on May 1st with a sutureless aortic valve replacement through a thoracic incision just 5 centimeters long. The two patients in their seventies who underwent this innovative procedure were doing well only one week after their operations.

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