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A NEW Heart Procedure Offered Locally: Valvuloplasty Stiff Heart Valves Opened Through Valvuloplasty Procedure at Lawnwood’s Heart and Vascular Institute, Reducing the need for Open-Heart Surgery
October 04, 2010
There are many ways our body’s largest muscle, the heart, can become diseased. Arteries can become narrowed or blocked. Heart rhythm problems can develop. Infections and congenital heart problems (those you’re born with) can cause disease. Valves, which keep the blood flowing forward during its journey through the heart, can become damaged or diseased.