Prowess, persistence yield first-anywhere heart procedure
UW Surgery Admin
Cardiologists at the UW Medicine Heart Institute recently performed a first-in-the-world procedure, detaching and retrieving a clip device from a patient’s mitral valve and placing a replacement biologic valve — all through a catheter. Previously this sequence of tasks had been performed only via open surgery. The patient, John Steenmeyer, 76, of Bellingham, Wash., was… The post Prowess, persistence yield first-anywhere heart procedure appeared first on Department of Surgery .