Rose Rose's Patient Story

“They did such a marvelous job, I feel as if I never had a heart problem.”

Rose, of Maplewood, NJ, doesn’t worry about her heart anymore. Ever since she turned her cardiac care over to the experts at our Heart Centers, her heart is beating strong and steady.

“Another doctor told me I was too old for heart surgery and I should go home and enjoy what time I had left,” she recalls. Instead, Rose got another opinion. Cardiologists and cardiac surgeons at our Heart Centers treated the 71-year-old-woman’s complex heart problems in the knick of time. They replaced and repaired three heart valves which were causing severe muscle damage that would soon have been irreversible.

“They did such a marvelous job, I feel as if I never had a heart problem.” says Rose. “I have much more living to do.”