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Our patients tell us that the quality of their interactions, our attention to detail and the efficiency of their visits mean health care like they've never experienced. See the stories of satisfied Mayo Clinic patients.

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    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,…
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    (VIDEO) Hockey exec wins faceoff against heart issue

    Dr. Jason Anderson discussing the new valve with Kyle Davidson A general manager of a professional sports team is a job that inherently comes with a high amount of stress, difficulty and demand — making important decisions that affect the future of a franchise. But recently at Mayo Clinic, Chicago Blackhawks GM Kyle Davidson made a crucial choice about his personal health that affects his own future — undergo another open-heart surgery or have a…
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Feb. 21, 2025

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