Hospital Offers Patients New Approach to Aortic Valve Replacement
University of Virginia Health SystemA team of heart specialists at the University of Virginia Health System last week performed a leading-edge procedure in which an 74-year-old man, whose risk factors made him ineligible for traditional surgery, received a new aortic valve. Two days later, he was well enough to go home. The procedure is available at UVA as part of the PARTNER Trial, a large, randomized, controlled, multi-center study.