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mherdeg on Nov 20, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: The engineer who fixed his own heart

And I think the journal article about this particular process is from 2009 ( http://icvts.oxfordjournals.org/content/10/3/360.short ).

So, hey, points to the BBC for writing an article about something that continues to be interesting instead of something that's "brand new".

graeham on Nov 20, 2013 [–]

I find it fascinating that such an old procedure has been revisited sucessfully (not completely unheard of in medicine either). Perhaps better materials (now a polymer mesh) than used previously (cellophane wrap!).

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