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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-01-06 01:45 PM
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'Closed-Heart Surgery' Is Newest Frontier
'Closed-Heart Surgery' Is Newest Frontier
New Frontier in Heart Surgery: Replacing Diseased Valves Without Cracking the Chest

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer

Apr 1, 2006 (AP)— Dr. Samuel Lichtenstein cut a 2-inch hole between an elderly man's ribs. Peering inside, he poked a pencil-sized wire up into the chest, piercing the bottom of the man's heart.

Within minutes, Bud Boyer would have a new heart valve without having his chest cracked open.

Call it closed-heart surgery.

"I consider it some kind of magic," said Boyer, who left the Vancouver, British Columbia, hospital a day later and was almost fully recovered in just two weeks.
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http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1794394
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eleny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-01-06 02:24 PM
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1. Nice piece of Canadian health care!
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