Comments on: New Valves for Failing Hearts http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2009/04/17/in-the-magazine/health-in-the-magazine/valves-failing-hearts.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=valves-failing-hearts Home of The Saturday Evening Post Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:02:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: Wendy Braun http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2009/04/17/in-the-magazine/health-in-the-magazine/valves-failing-hearts.html/comment-page-1#comment-180887 Wendy Braun Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:34:36 +0000 http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/?p=3617#comment-180887 On November 2, 2011, the FDA approved the SAPIEN heart valve as a preferred treatment for patients too sick to undergo traditional aortic valve surgery.

The recent approval was based on results of the 26-center Placement of AoRTic TraNscathetER Valve (PARTNER) clinical research trial co-led by Drs. Martin Leon, Jeffrey Moses and Craig Smith at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia.

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