Baptist part of trial for mitral heart valve replacement

By , Daily Memphian Updated: September 23, 2019 9:31 AM CT | Published: September 22, 2019 4:00 AM CT
<strong>Dr. Basil Paulus is doing new work with tendyne and heart valve disease at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s amazing what good you can do,&rdquo; he said of practicing cardiology. &ldquo;I thought I was going to be an ophthalmologist until I did my cardiology rotation. I fell in love with it.&rdquo;</strong>&nbsp;(Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)

Dr. Basil Paulus is doing new work with tendyne and heart valve disease at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis. “It’s amazing what good you can do,” he said of practicing cardiology. “I thought I was going to be an ophthalmologist until I did my cardiology rotation. I fell in love with it.” (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)

Baptist-Memphis is among the sites approved to test Abbott Vascular’s Tendyne, a catheterized replacement for the heart’s complicated mitral valve.

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Dr. Basil Paulus Dr. Ed Garrett Stern Cardiovascular Tendyne
Jane Roberts

Jane Roberts

Jane Roberts has reported in Memphis for more than 20 years. As a senior member of The Daily Memphian staff, she was assigned to the medical beat during the COVID-19 pandemic. She also has done in-depth work on other medical issues facing our community, including shortages of specialists in local hospitals. She covered K-12 education here for years and later the region’s transportation sector, including Memphis International Airport and FedEx Corp.


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