September 5, 2019
Jacksonville stroke survivor celebrates son’s first birthday this month, a few days after Heart Walk
Florida Times-UnionBy Beth Reese Cravey Ashley Zimmerman had a stroke in 2014 after an infection damaged one of her heart valves. Wanting to be a mother but told she would be high risk, she got a second opinion at Mayo Clinic and after a closely-monitored pregnancy, delivered a son. She will be a coach at […]
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January 4, 2013
Mayo Clinic Spinoff Gets Approval to Sell Heart Device
NeoChord Inc., a Mayo Clinic spin-off that makes technology for repairing heart valves, has received regulatory approval to sell its device in Europe. The Eden Prairie-based company will begin selling the device in Europe this month, NeoChord CEO John Seaberg said in an interview. The company makes artificial heart “strings” and an accompanying device that treat mitral valve regurgitation, […]
Tags: artificial heart strings, heart valve, John Seaberg, mitral valve regurgitation, Mpls St. Paul Business Journal, NeoChord Inc.
January 4, 2013
Mayo Clinic Spinoff Gets Approval to Sell Heart Device
NeoChord Inc., a Mayo Clinic spin-off that makes technology for repairing heart valves, has received regulatory approval to sell its device in Europe. The Eden Prairie-based company will begin selling the device in Europe this month, NeoChord CEO John Seaberg said in an interview. The company makes artificial heart “strings” and an accompanying device that treat mitral valve regurgitation, […]
Tags: artificial heart strings, heart valve, John Seaberg, mitral valve regurgitation, Mpls St. Paul Business Journal, NeoChord Inc., repair
November 23, 2009
After her husband passed away in May following years with Alzheimer’s disease, the 84-year-old Burnsville resident saw her own health steadily decline due to a failing heart valve. On Christmas Eve, Schuenke was so fatigued and short of breath that she wound up at the hospital, where doctors offered a grim prognosis: Without a […]
Tags: heart valve, open-heart surgery