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Dedicated to loving your heart: Ronald Chelsky, MD, receives Adventist Health’s Crystal Angel Award

For more than 30 years you've counted on Ronald Chelsky, MD, to care for your loved ones.

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Adventist Health Northwest Heart Center Show Benefits of Minimally Invasive Aortic Valve Replacement

The majority of aortic valve replacements for patients referred to Adventist Health Northwest Heart Center are performed with either percutaneous (TAVR) or minimally invasive surgical technique. Elderly patients generally undergo percutaneous replacement (TAVR).

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You were there when I needed you.

After a bout of shingles and neuropathy Virginia began experiencing pain and numbness in her legs. Her right leg and foot was also cold all the time. Working with her primary care physician, they were able to diagnose Virginia with Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD).

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Patient travels from Guatemala for minimally invasive sutureless valve surgery

After 33 years as a police officer Jim Hupe has retired and now enjoys sailing around the Caribbean and building a house in Guatemala. Thanks to a minimally invasive heart valve replacement from Dr. Tom Molloy at Northwest Regional Heart and Vascular Jim is back to living his life after a short recovery time.

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Adventist Health First in Oregon to Use Sutureless Surgical Valve

Adventist Health’s Northwest Regional Heart and Vascular in Portland, Ore. is one of the first institutions in the country and the only one in Oregon to offer patients the new sutureless Perceval valve for aortic valve replacements (AVR).

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