Recently at University of Colorado Hospital, 88-year-old Geraldine “G.G.” Heyman of Aspen waited a little nervously for a surgeon to install a polyester-covered metal clip inside her heart to repair a leaky mitral valve. Later, surgeon John Carroll deployed a leak-stopping MitraClip through a catheter threaded through about 18 inches of vein in her leg. At this time the hospital is the only place in the region peforming this type of mitral valve repair.
University of Colorado Hospital Pioneers New Minimally-Invasive Surgeries
Minimally invasive procedures continue to multiply and evolve through technological innovations.
July 30, 2014