Heart valve repair on Tuesday, home on Thursday

[KSTP TV, April 27, 2016] On Tuesday, a United Hospital team was repairing a failing valve in 83 year old Donald Nierenhausen's heart. Two days later, Nierenhausen is headed home. This first of its kind in the Twin Cities transcatheter mitral valve-in-valve repair procedure performed by a United Heart and Vascular Clinic team lead by cardiologist Dr. Bilal Murad has the patient saying he feels like "a million dollars."

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