Heart Care
There’s a new procedure for your heart’s ‘forgotten valve.’
Mount Airy woman is first to receive new tricuspid valve heart procedure at Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center
Josh Jarman
Staff Writer
Published Dec. 12, 2024
Dr. Sam Turner and Dr. Robert Preli, left to right standing, are interventional cardiologists who performed the first tricuspid valve heart procedure at Forsyth Medical Center on Kay Hiatt, lying down, Dec. 11, 2024. The brand-new, less-invasive procedure accessed Hiatt's heart through the femoral artery in her groin.
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