a night out with his wife, he suddenly collapsed. i felt lightheaded. that s the last thing i remember. he suffers from aortic s stenosis. without treatment it can be deadly. rather than having open heart surgery to treat it, airs had a transc transcatheter aortic valve replacement, the same surgery mick jagger had this year, and the fda is making the procedure available to all patients who need a aortic heart valve replacement. dr. matthew williams is the director of nyu s heart valve center. is this going to change the way the procedure is done across the country. it s certainly going to change how we treat these patients. thooehere s how it works, a incision is made in the groin and a catheter is inserted. it travels up to the heart and to the aortic valve, inserts the