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Overlake Interventional Cardiologist Ron Aviles, MD, left, and Group Health Interventional Cardiologist Scott Haugen, MD, second from left, watch the movements of their replacement heart valve on X-ray monitors. COURTESY PHOTO, Overlake Hospital Medical Center
A NEW CHANCE AT LIFE
Less invasive procedure repairs valves of patients rejected for open heart surgery they’re looking at giving up independence for one disease process.” Valve clinic coordinator Nancy O’Mara, a physician assistant monitoring the patient’s surgery from an adjacent control room, noted that he seemed more than a decade younger than his numerical age. “He doesn’t look or act 87,” she said. “But he will tomorrow.” Like others who have undergone this procedure, he’s been rejected as a candidate for an open heart valve replacement by two cardiothoracic surgeons due to risk factors for mortality or morbidity — complications SEE HEART, 9
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Overlake Hospital and Group Health have partnered to provide a recently Food and Drug Administration approved heart surgery to patients of severe aortic valve stenosis. Tuesday morning, a team of nine physicians met to perform their sixth transcatheter aortic valve replacement on an 87-year-old man. He’s an energetic man and a dancer, but the narrowing of his heart valve has brought on symptoms like shortness of breath and chest pain that, left unchecked, will mean the end of his
active life. “We certainly look for improving a patient’s length of life, but we also look at improving their quality of life,” said Dr. Scott Haugen, an interventional cardiologist from Group Health. Haugen is co-medical director of the transcatheter replacement program, with cardiologist Dr. Ronnier Aviles of Overlake. Aviles noted that, because of the advanced age of many of the candidates for transcatheter replacement, improved quality of life was of greater concern. “We have patients that have lived independently for their entire lives,” Aviles said. “(With the symptoms of stenosis,)
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BY DANIEL NASH BELLEVUE REPORTER
Two property tax levy renewals and one bond measure supporting the Bellevue School District got overwhelming support at the polls Tuesday. More than 70 percent of voters approved each measure. Nearly 20,500 ballots — 28.68 percent of the district's registered voters — were counted as of 4:13 p.m. Feb. 12. Proposition No. 1, authorizing the replacement of the district's Educational Programs and Operations Levy, was passing by 72.87 percent. The levy funds more than a quarter of the district budget, funding a third of teacher salaries, supporting art and music programs in elementary schools, world languages in middle schools, gifted and special education programs and seven-period days in middle and high schools. Proposition No. 2, authorizing the renewal of the Technology and Capital Projects Levy, was passing by 71.51 percent. The levy funds the replacement of aging technologies used in Bellevue schools, training for their use and improvements to existing buildings and facilities. Proposition No. 3, authorizing the issuance of general obligation bonds for district capital construction projects, was passing by 72.25 percent. The bonds will help rebuild six elementary and middle school campuses, improve the International and Big Picture schools and improve and add capacity to Newport High School and Woodridge Elementary School. "I'm very excited," schools Superintendent Tim Mills said on election night. "But I think it demonstrates the level of support for education voters have in Bellevue." King County election results will continue to be updated as ballots come in. Results will be finalized Feb. 25.
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