Henry Ford Hospital Replaces Heart Valve Outside the Heart (2 of 3) (VIDEO)

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Henry Ford Hospital cardiologist William O'Neill, M.D. is the first in the United States to insert a valve inside a stent at the junction of the right atrium and inferior vena cava, just outside the heart of a metro Detroit woman.

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