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For More Than Two Decades, WMC Doctor Provides Life-Saving Care

For More Than Two Decades, WMC Doctor Provides Life-Saving Care

For More Than Two Decades, WMC Doctor Provides Life-Saving Care Saving a patient from a single life or death diagnosis requires unparalleled skill and expertise, but providing prolonged care calls for knowledge of a different kind. That's what makes one local cardiologist's more than two decades of life-saving treatment for a single patient all the more incredible. Nelson, 67, lives in New Hampton with his wife, Edna; they have one son and three grandchildren. He was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy — an enlarged heart — in 1995. Then, in 1999, his aortic valve failed, disrupting the function of his left ventricle, the main pumping chamber of the hear…

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