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a Structural Heart Disease Fellow at Henry Ford Hospital, is also optimistic that these findings will lead to helping more people. Patients with severely calcified mitral stenosis are often not candidates for conventional open-heartsurgery,” said Dr. Giustino.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of its TriClip, a first-of-its-kind device to repair leaky tricuspid heartvalve, for which more than 1.6 On average, noted Abbott, people who receive TriClip only need one day in the hospital before they recover and can return home. Abbott has announced U.S million people in the U.S.
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