Metro Detroit 85-year-old becomes the first in Western Hemisphere to get new heart valve procedure

At 85 years old, Frank Konjarevich is a first.

“I can’t tell you how happy I am,” he said.

The retired shoe and handbag repair business owner wasn’t feeling well thanks to heart valve disease.

But the cardiology team at Henry Ford Health used a new technology to help repair what’s also known as a leaky heart valve disease .

“People here at this hospital, they’ve been miracle workers for me,” he said,

The procedure was performed at Henry Ford in Detroit by Dr Pedro Engel Gonzalez and Drs. Brian and William O’Neill.

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