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Newer heart valves may let more people avoid surgery

By MARILYNN MARCHIONE Surgery for certain bad heart valves may soon become a thing of the past. New studies suggest it’s OK and often better to have a new valve placed through a tube into an artery instead. The results are expected to quickly transform treatment of a problem that affects millions of people — a stiff or narrowed aortic valve that...