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" Platinum has been used in the development of a new technique which enables patients to have a heart valve replacement in just one hour.  A collapsible platinum mesh cylinder was used in the surgery to protect a balloon inside it, which was then inflated so that the non-functional valve was pushed to once side, allowing the new valve to remain in place.  This process could dramatically improve the speed at which heart surgery takes place in future, because the technique allows the patient to have the procedure in just one hour, not even requiring an overnight stay in hospital.  That is a dramatic reduction compared to the usual procedure, which requires seven hours and is followed by a two-week stay in hospital.  The Daily Mail reports on one person who has already undergone the treatment and her doctor, Thea Jourdan, explains the procedure and the use of the platinum mesh cylinder to deliver a solution to major heart surgery which is has a much shorter recovery time than in the past. \u00A9 Adfero Ltd "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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