A new procedure is giving hope to congestive heart failure patients who are running out of options and time.
More than five million people in the U.S. are living with congestive heart failure - it's the most common diagnosis in hospitalized patients over the age of 65. Symptoms are often debilitating, leaving patients unable to live normal, active lives. But now, a new procedure is giving hope to patients who were running out of options and time."It didn't look very promising, especially when I was advised that I had a year to live," he remembers.
Blood was flowing backward within Steven's heart. Medications can work for a while, and outcomes with open heart surgery are not good. "Tricuspid regurgitation is one of the most ignored diseases of the heart because until recently, we really had minimal treatments for it," Dr. Stinis adds.
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