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Keeping During the average lifespan, the heart will beat three
the Beat billion times. But sometimes your heart needs help. So
the Summa Health Heart & Vascular Institute performs
innovative procedures to assist your critical organ in
functioning properly again.

Innovative
procedures

TAVR Treatment Right Left WATCHMAN™ Device
Atrium Atrium
“Valve-within-a-valve” for Implant that helps A-Fib
patients at too high of a risk Right Left patients come off blood
for open-heart surgery Ventricle Ventricle thinners and reduce risk
of stroke
Mitral Clip
Micra™ Pacemaker
Device to help restore
normal blood flow in One of smallest
patients with degenerative pacemaker devices ever
mitral regurgitation made, engineered to
eliminate need for
pacemaker wires for
those with abnormal
and slow heart rhythms

60,000+ Body

miles of blood vessels run Heart
throughout the body
Healthy
With walls made up of muscle, your heart serves as a giant pump Blood
squeezing blood out with every “beat,” or contraction. Aided by four Flow
heart valves, it pumps blood through its four chambers, and then out
into your lungs and body via 60,000+ miles of blood vessels. Heart

Lungs

Visit summahealth.org/heart to learn more. If concerned, schedule a
same day/next day appointment with your doctor at 888.586.8860 now.

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