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By Rex Hearn University; fresh student voices will sound lush in the trills that embellish his melodic line, truly beautiful music
A big mystery this Ode to Joy. The soloists are stellar choices too: Hayley best known for its Costa Diva aria (Chaste Goddess).
season surrounded the Lipke, soprano; Robynne Redmond, mezzo; Joseph The singers are Jessica Pratt, Marigona Qerkezi, (4/6)
absence of Kravis Center’s McBrayer, tenor; and Keith Klein, bass. Starting off this as Norma; Ashley Dixon, Ann Marie Stanley, (4/6) as
magnificently produced arts remarkable night at the Kravis Center, will be the pianist Adalgisa; Paolo Fanale, Moises Salazar as Pollione; Maria
brochure: none to be found son of a Russian Nobel Laureate and dissenter Aleksandr Vasilevskaya as Clotilda; Nicolas Teste as Oroveso and
anywhere, staff as puzzled Solzhenitsyn, by the first name of Ignat, who will play Devin Eatmon as Flavio. Carlo Montanaro conducts. For
as their public. What a pity. Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2. An evening not to be tickets call (561) 833-7888.
And the much loved David missed. For tickets call (561) 281-0145. Palm Beach Drama Works
Walker from Palm Beach Palm Beach Opera Two more plays fill out this excellent theatre group’s
Opera left halfway through Vincenzo Bellini’s Norma goes up April 5 and 6 at 7:30 choices, found at the end of Clematis Street (No. 201) in West
their season. We wish him p.m. and Sunday, April 7 at 2 p.m. Palm Beach. From March 29 to April 14, Arthur Miller’s
well. White Hall, the Henry Flagler home continues The opera has assembled first rate singers for this story Pulitzer Prize winner, Death of a Salesman shows how he
happily with the old team back. about the (French) Gauls, led by their high priestess, shook up the status quo, exposing the industrial profiteering
Palm Beach Symphony Norma, constantly scheming against their Roman of World War ll. The last play this season is Trying by Joanna
Tackling the big one, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, on occupiers, led by Pollione. Bellini was 34 when he died McClelland Glass which hits the boards on May 24 running
Thursday, April 25 at 7:30 p.m. is surely a commendable in Paris of complications far from his beloved Sicily. But until June 9. Support the actors, they work hard to bring you
endeavor. Maestro Gerard Schwarz has amassed he brought us romantic operas using the art of Bel Canto perfection in reflecting life’s realities back to you. For tickets
four choruses from the Frost Music School of Miami at its flourishing best. You’ll hear astonishing runs and call (561) 514-4042.

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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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