CMC Doctors Implant Heart Valve Through Jugular Vein

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CMC Doctors Implant Heart Valve Through Jugular Vein

A team of cardiologists of the Christian Medical College (CMC) Hospital, Vellore, has used a novel percutaneous route to implant a pulmonary valve in a 54-year-old woman from Puducherry. The doctors implanted the new heart valve through the jugular vein, a blood vessel in the neck. Read the full article in The Hindu

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