Arman Arghami, M.D., M.P.H.

Robotic heart surgery enables lifelong athlete to race again  

A successful consultant and avid athlete, Lauren lived at full speed — until a leaky heart valve turned life-threatening. Robotic surgery at Mayo Clinic helped her rebound quickly.  As a little girl, Lauren rarely thought about her mitral valve prolapse, a heart condition she'd had since birth. Although the bulging valve caused blood to leak backward in her heart, it didn't stop her from dancing competitively.  "I never experienced it as something wrong with my heart,…