Given his long and arduous history of heart disease, Dick Cheney is lucky to still be alive.
More specifically, according to the former vice president’s cardiologist, Cheney is fortunate his lifetime of heart issues have coincided with the advent of several breakthrough...
For several decades, open-heart surgery has been the gold-standard technique for aortic valve replacement (AVR). Now, a new technique approved in Europe and under investigation in the United States – percutaneous heart valve (PHV) replacement – may prove at least...
iMobileWellness Releases iStentGraft Application for Mobile Users
As stent graft procedures become more prevalent, doctors and patients can use the iPhone application to access critical aortic stent graft information and make better health decisions
PHOENIX (Dec 28,...
We’ve talked a lot about aortic valve replacement and repair on our blog, but if you search Google news, you will find that another heart surgery-related topic is getting increased buzz: stent graft surgeries.
According to Wikipedia:
“a stent graft is a tubular device,...