Patient Stories

Patient Stories

  • Remembering the Past and Living for the Future, With Gratitude to the Cooper Cardiology Team

    Eleanor Sandelier attended nursing school at Cooper Hospital (as it was called then) as a young woman, only to return to Cooper decades later as a patient.

    The need for a transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) brought Sandelier back to Cooper. TAVR is a minimally invasive procedure to replace a narrowed aortic valve that does not open properly (aortic valve stenosis). This procedure can improve quality of life in patients who otherwise have limited choices for repair of the aortic valve. 

    TAVR was not Sandelier’s first heart procedure, and heart disease...