{"id":75,"date":"2014-10-28T18:43:45","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T18:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/?p=75"},"modified":"2018-05-16T19:08:47","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T19:08:47","slug":"this-collapsible-heart-valve-can-be-introduced-into-the-body-without-open-heart-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/this-collapsible-heart-valve-can-be-introduced-into-the-body-without-open-heart-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"This Collapsible Heart Valve Can Be Introduced Into The Body Without Open-Heart Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Edwards SAPIEN valve is a collapsible aortic heart valve\u00a0with the ability to be\u00a0introduced into the body by of\u00a0a catheter-based delivery system.<\/p>\n<p>This innovative valve\u00a0is designed to replace a patient\u2019s diseased &#8220;native&#8221; aortic valve WITHOUT\u00a0the need for\u00a0open-heart surgery and most impressively, while the heart continues to beat.<\/p>\n<p>The SAPIEN valve can be implanted in patients using one of two methods:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Transfemoral Technique:<\/strong>\u00a0delivered via the femoral artery<\/li>\n<li><strong>Transapical Technique:<\/strong> delivered via a small incision between the ribs<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m1q3n-jKAzk\" width=\"680\" height=\"383\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Illustrated description of the Edwards SAPIEN valve procedure:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_77\" style=\"width: 690px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/sape1.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-77\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-77\" src=\"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/sape1.png\" alt=\"Edwards\" width=\"680\" height=\"906\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/sape1.png 680w, https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/sape1-100x133.png 100w, https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/sape1-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/sape1-300x400.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-77\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edwards<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_78\" style=\"width: 690px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/sape2.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-78\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-78\" src=\"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/sape2.png\" alt=\"Edwards\" width=\"680\" height=\"818\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/sape2.png 680w, https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/sape2-111x133.png 111w, https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/sape2-249x300.png 249w, https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/sape2-300x361.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-78\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edwards<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_79\" style=\"width: 690px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/sape3.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-79\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-79\" src=\"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/sape3.png\" alt=\"Edwards\" width=\"680\" height=\"823\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/sape3.png 680w, https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/sape3-110x133.png 110w, https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/sape3-248x300.png 248w, https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/sape3-300x363.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-79\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edwards<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Edwards SAPIEN valve is a collapsible aortic heart valve\u00a0with the ability to be\u00a0introduced into the body by of\u00a0a catheter-based delivery system. This innovative valve\u00a0is designed to replace a patient\u2019s diseased &#8220;native&#8221; aortic valve WITHOUT\u00a0the need for\u00a0open-heart surgery and most impressively, while the heart continues to beat. The SAPIEN valve can be implanted in patients [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58],"tags":[102,55,101,103,54],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/84"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}