New Device For Elderly With Heart Valve Failure - Less-Invasive Procedure For Those Previously Untreatable
May 15th 2008Drug InformationCardiovascular
In the hope of reaching a formerly untreatable patient group, clinician-researchers from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center are leading the minimally invasive Phase II EVEREST clinical trial with the aim of treating malfunctioning heart valves in the elderly. Many elderly people are too old, too weak, or too debilitated by their disease to be candidates for traditional surgery to fix the problem, according to Dr.
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