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John Elder

Forgotten heart valve: New treatment for nasty killer

A leaky tricuspid valve causes fluid to accumulate in vital organs. The eventual outcome is kidney and heart failure.

In 2021, Laurence Beesley had open-heart surgery that involved everything but the kitchen sink.

A benign tumour on his heart, called a myxoma, was removed. His dodgy aortic valve was replaced. And a double-bypass was engineered.

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