Patients diagnosed with aortic stenosis who are too sick for open-heart surgery have better survival rates and an improved quality of life after undergoing catheter-based heart valve replacement than if the patients had been treated with standard medical therapy.

Patients diagnosed with aortic stenosis who are too sick for open-heart surgery have better survival rates and an improved quality of life after undergoing catheter-based heart valve replacement than if the patients had been treated with standard medical therapy.

St. Mary's Duluth Clinic Heart Center in Duluth, MN, plans to broadcast a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), also called a coronary angioplasty, live on www.OR-Live.com. The webcast is slated for Tuesday, December 18, 2007, at 6:30 p.m.

St. Mary's Duluth Clinic Heart Center in Duluth, MN, plans to broadcast a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), also called a coronary angioplasty, live on www.OR-Live.com. The webcast is slated for Tuesday, December 18, 2007, at 6:30 p.m.

By Paul Swiech, The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Ill. May 14--NORMAL -- A patient from Normal who recently underwent total hip replacement was able to go home the same day because the surgery was performed in a new, minimally invasive way. The orthopedic surgeon who performed the procedure, Dr.