New procedure helps patients avoid open heart surgery
Leon Bradford couldn’t walk across his yard without feeling “give out.”Ruby Williams couldn’t walk from the parking lot to her church building without feeling weak.Now, those problems are gone.Bradford and Williams were the first two patients to have heart valves replaced at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center with a procedure called Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR).The procedure involves using a catheter to replace a narrowed […]
