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And you sew them up. >> and very traumatic for a human body. >> very traumatic. so the concept was to basically go through the chest wall into the apex of the beating heart, find the valve, grab it, put in that stitch, pull it out and be done in 15 minutes. wonderful concept. so the word we did was to build a device to actually do this. >> how much do you think could be duplicated in our medical facilities, other medical practices, i don't mean specifically the discovery, but the culture, the orchestra merged with engineering? >> you need to find a core group of medical professionals that will...

>> you see the little wire mesh like one of those chinese handcuffs, that's what it looks like although it's very tiny. >> it stays in your heart forever. >> it becomes part of your artery. >> in 2004, he had four blockages. how rare is it to clean out those blockages and then have to go back in and put a stent to keep the walls open? >> you don't really clean out the blockages. what you do is you reroute the plumbing. you use an artery from the chest wall or one from -- a vein from the leg and you bypass the obstruction. so you always have the risk of developing more heart disease. that's why...