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Duke Doctors Perform First Living Mitral Valve Transplant
- India Edwards HealthDay Reporter
- March 3, 2025
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In a groundbreaking series of surgeries, doctors at Duke Health have successfully performed the world’s first living mitral valve replacement, saving the lives of three young girls across North Carolina.
The procedure became possible after 11-year-old Journi Kelly,...
Black Patients More Likely to Get Riskier Heart Surgeries
- Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter
- December 28, 2022
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Insured Black patients are less likely to undergo minimally invasive heart valve replacement or repairs -- relatively safe procedures -- than their white counterparts, new research shows.
Black patients who need a mitral valve replacement are more likely to have operatio...
Mom-to-Be's 'Leaky' Heart Valves May Pose More Danger Than Thought
- HealthDay Reporter
- Cara Murez
- September 9, 2021
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Leaky heart valves can put pregnant women at serious risk, according to a large study that runs counter to established practice.
The condition used to be considered relatively harmless during pregnancy. But this analysis by Johns Hopkins University researchers of more th...