CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee: Simple tasks such as cooking, cleaning and walking to the mailbox are not so simple for people with symptoms of severe mitral regurgitation, a condition that causes blood to leak backward into the heart.

“Imagine that for the last six months of your life, all those things that you enjoy doing you can’t do, because you are so fatigued,” said medical doctor Sam Ledford, an interventional cardiologist at CHI Memorial’s Chattanooga Heart Institute.

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