New Device For Elderly With Heart Valve Failure

Courtesy ScienceDaily  Tue, 05/20/2008 - 12:00

In the hope of reaching a formerly untreatable patient group, clinician-researchers are leading the minimally invasive Phase II EVEREST clinical trial with the aim of treating malfunctioning heart valves in the elderly.

Many elderly people are too old, too weak, or too debilitated by their disease to be candidates for traditional surgery to fix the problem, according to researchers.

Projections have estimated that by the year 2010, more than 50 million Americans will be over the age of 65.

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