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Heart Defects
Catheter-Delivered Valve May Help People With Heart Defects Avoid Multiple Surgeries
November 15th, 2009
Children born with certain heart defects have impaired blood flow from the right ventricle to the pulmonary artery leading to the lungs, requiring implanted devices (known as right-ventricular outflow tract conduits) to maintain the flow. However, these conduits fail over time, and children typically face multiple open-heart operations during their lives to reopen the passage. Now, a prospective multicenter study in the October 27 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, led by Children's Hospital Boston cardiologist Doff McElhinney, MD, finds good preliminary outcomes with a valve that can be delivered non-surgically -- threaded up a leg vein to the heart -- potentially...
Source: Medical Letter on the CDC & FDA (2009-11-15)
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