A grandmother has been given a “second chance at life” after undergoing a world-first heart valve operation. Julia Butterworth, 53, had two valves in her heart replaced in 2007 after doctors detected ...
A new keyhole procedure to replace heart valves avoids open-heart surgery. Jay Makwana, 60, a pharmaceuticals research consultant and father of one from Ash in Kent, underwent it, as he tells OONA ...
Around 1.5 million Britons have a faulty mitral heart valve. To repair or replace it has usually involved open-heart surgery. But Ron Thomson, 81, a grandfather of five and a retired car manufacturing ...