Valve
Heart Murmur Leads to Urgent Mitral Valve Repair in Snowboarder
Ted Bendixson getting air while snowboarding. He’s back to his active lifestyle after an urgent mitral valve repair. Ted Bendixson has spent years as an active athlete. “I’d go mountain biking, go on hikes, I’d go to the climbing gym,” he recounts. But he has a particular love for snowboarding. “I grew up in Colorado, […]
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7 Quick Questions With Heart Valve Specialist John Saxon
As a structural and interventional cardiologist, John T Saxon, MD, helps patients who need heart procedures to fix conditions like leaky heart valves and treat certain adult congenital heart diseases. He’s also co-director of the UVA Health’s Advanced Cardiac Valve Center. If you have heart valve disease, the idea of a major open-heart surgery can be […]
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