Forbes -- Put down that new iPad for a second to consider another technological leap. Soon some damaged heart valves will be repaired without cracking patients’ chests and cutting into their hearts. Instead, new medical devices allow valves to be fixed or replaced with tiny catheters that are snaked up from the groin, similar to the way stents are implanted in the heart to open clogged arteries when people have heart attacks or pain from a lack of good circulation in the heart muscle.
