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300
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Counting
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Minimally invasive
valve replacement, or
TAVR, is mending hearts
and extending lives
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had those done here in Northwest
Indiana. I was referred by my cardiologist of the past 18 years, Akram
Kholoki, MD."
Kholoki, a Community Care
Network physician with an
office in Valparaiso, is on staff at
St. Mary Medical Center in Hobart
and Community Hospital in
Munster. The physician implanted
a stent in Helvie's heart a couple of
years ago. That was not enough to
keep his very active, still working
patient from his cardiologist's office.
"I was having trouble breathing,"
Helvie says. "I couldn't walk up a
flight of stairs without being out
of breath. I know that's not normal. After a few tests, Dr. Kholoki

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obert "Bob" Helvie of
Valparaiso says one of
the things he was looking forward to this year
was holding his newest
great-granddaughter when she was
born the second week of January.
He knows he might not have
made it to that day without
his cardiologists.
"Every doctor who has helped
me has been in the right place at
the right time," says Helvie, who
is 80. "I had three bypasses at the
Cleveland Clinic around 1988 when
I lived in the Fort Wayne area. Years
later, in 2002, after checking me out
again, doctors informed me that my
heart needed six more bypasses. I

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