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stuart CHaMber HappeninGs

Tykes & Teens celebrated their new bright and cheery office with their staff and community
Gary Owen, owner of Owen Insurance Group served up his famous margaritas, as he hosted leaders during the Stuart/Martin County Chamber ribbon cutting on March 14. You can now
and sponsored the Stuart/Martin County Chamber’s February Business After Hours. More than find Tykes & Teens at 900 East Ocean Blvd., Suite 340, Stuart.
100 members enjoyed the great food, libations and hospitality as they networked the night away.
Owen’s friendly staff of associates include (from left) Lee Moskowitz, Kathy Prosniewski, Julie
Scott, Kim Garcia, Tom Bouvier, Gary Owen, Jared Taibo and Hedvika Dunnuck.

Maureen Vaillaincourt, Re/Max
As sponsor of the Stuart/Martin County Chamber’s Feb. of Stuart, shown with Barry
27 Business B4 Breakfast at the Children’s Services McLaughlin, Hobe Sound Beach
Council, Justin Baksh, CEO of I-Mind Mental Health Shop, continued celebrating
Solutions had the audience’s full attention as he described her big birthday week at the
various mental health issues, the stigma attached to them Stuart/Martin County Chamber’s
and ways their organization assists in evaluating and February Business After Hours at
The corporate staff of D.R. Horton Southeast Florida welcomed Stuart/Martin County treating the diseases. Representing I-Mind were, from Owen Insurance Group.
Chamber members and realtors to the March 7 Grand Opening ribbon cutting celebration left: Lisa Corso, Justin Baksh, Stephany Eddowes and
of their newest Stuart community, Willow Pointe. Guests enjoyed a delicious lunch complete Kevin Counter, with Chamber Chairwoman/Trustee Dr. Stuart Chamber Happenings
with dessert, as well as live entertainment, as they toured the model homes. Lisa Grassam-Smith, Grassam Spine & Wellness Center. on page 12

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SPOTLIGHT ON HEALTH CARE

Fewer patients face traditional open-heart surgery as

minimally invasive procedures continue to evolve.

By Valerie Staggs

When Dr. John Gibbon performed the first conditions is heart valve disease, which, as For Sabbah, these new structural heart
successful open-heart bypass procedure in the name suggests, relates to a defect in a treatments allow him to provide patients
1953, the medical world gained its first heart valve. “The heart has four chambers with the life altering results they are desper-
glimpse at the possibilities for treating this and four heart valves. Their function is to ately seeking. “One of the most rewarding
vital organ with innovative medical inter- open and close in harmony so that blood aspects of my specialty is offering pa-
vention. Today cardiac surgeons perform flows through the heart in the proper di- tients who aren’t feeling well the option
over 900,000 procedures annually and by rection,” explains Sabbah. A “leaky” valve of a minimally invasive procedure. In
2029, cardiac surgeries are projected to can cause blood to back up into the lungs most cases, they are feeling better in as
reach 1.3 million each year. The increase and elsewhere, at times causing significant little as a week. There is nothing better
is attributed not to open-heart procedures, symptoms of shortness of breath, dizziness, than that.”
but to more minimally invasive options and even sometimes chest pain.
now available to physicians.
New procedures such as TAVR (transcath-
While Gibbon paved the way for the use eter aortic valve replacement) enable car-
of open-heart procedures to treat serious diologists like Sabbah to fix valve defects
heart conditions, the introduction of new through minimally invasive methods. The
cardiovascular technologies in recent years TAVR procedure involves a small IV, typi-
has enabled patients to avoid the need for conditions that affect the structure of the cally in the groin area, to allow access to an
open-heart surgery in many cases. Today heart, specifically the heart’s valves, walls, artery. A catheter is then inserted into the
cardiologists are able to diagnose and treat chambers or muscles. These conditions artery and guided through that blood vessel
many heart conditions early before they can be congenital, meaning they have been to the heart where the clogged up valve is
lead to future complications. with the patient since birth, or they can be located. The new tissue aortic valve is then
caused by other adverse conditions in the deployed inside of the defective aortic valve.
“The landscape of cardiac care has body such as high blood pressure, an infec- The average TAVR procedure takes about
changed significantly over the past de- tion or autoimmune diseases such as lupus one hour, and most patients return home
cade,” says Dr. Michael Sabbah, an inter- or rheumatic fever. Simple aging can also the next day. Patients report a significantly
ventional and structural cardiologist at Ju- lead to structural heart defects. About 2.5% improved quality of life after the procedure.
piter Medical Center. “We are now able to of all Americans suffer from structural heart
treat defects and disorders of the heart be- disease. TAVR is just one of the treatment meth-
fore they lead to more serious conditions.” ods cardiologists now have available to treat
Thanks to recent developments in the treat- structural heart disease. Similar treatments Michael Sabbah, MD
The defects and disorders Sabbah refers ment of structural heart disease, cardiol- available include MitraClip and Am-
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to are collectively known as “structural ogists like Dr. Sabbah now have a host of platzer Septal Occluder . Both involve To learn more, visit
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heart disease,” a sub-specialty of cardiol- different options for treating their patients. putting a device in place to fix a structural
ogy. Structural heart disease is defined as One of the most common structural heart abnormality. jupitermed.com/cardiology.
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