New Option for Heart Valve Replacement

Emory University Hospital is one of five hospitals nationwide, and the first hospital in the Southeast, to study a non-surgical treatment option for severe aortic heart valve disease, commonly called aortic stenosis.

Emory University interventional cardiologists are performing percutaneous aortic valve replacement as part of a clinical trial comparing this procedure with traditional, open-heart surgery or medical therapy in high-risk patients with aortic stenosis.

Sample Quotes

Peter Block, MD, FACC, professor of medicine, Emory School of Medicine
Vasilis Babaliaros, MD, assistant professor of medicine at Emory University School of Medicine

Topic

Speaker

Length

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Aortic Stenosis

     

Medical definition of aortic stenosis

Dr. Babaliaros

37 sec.

580 K

Diagnosis of aortic stenosis

Dr. Babaliaros

33 sec.

520 K

Expected to grow as problem among baby boom generation

Dr. Block

28 sec.

440 K

Typical progression of disease and surgical treatment

Dr. Babaliaros

17 sec.

276 K

Overview of typical valve replacement surgery

Dr. Block

1 min. 4 sec.

1 MB

New Procedure

     

Insertion of new valve

Dr. Babaliaros

41 sec.

640 K

Procedure is similar to angioplasty

Dr. Babaliaros

20 sec.

308 K

Types of patients used in the first studies

Dr. Block

37 sec.

576 K

Surgery remains best option for otherwise healthy patients

Dr. Block

38 sec.

604 K

Hopes for the future use of this procedure

Dr. Block

20 sec.

320 K

What's Happening at Emory

     

Emory as the only trial site in Southeast

Dr. Block

28 sec.

440 K

What will be happening at Emory in next year

Dr. Block

34 sec.

536 K

Who is a candidate for this trial procedure

Dr. Block

25 sec.

396 K