A procedure, requiring just a 2.5cm incision that can take as little as one week of recovery time while open-heart surgery, which pierces the breastbone with a slice that can run the length of the torso, takes as long as eight weeks. This is the difference, [s]Business Day[/s] reports doctors saying that can make aortic valves designed to use the new procedure standard issue for heart patients. The procedure now was 'generally used for people that have contraindications to surgery', said Robert Siegel, director of the [b]Cardiac Non-invasive Laboratory[/b] at [b]Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre[/b] in Los Angeles.
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