User blog comment:Gideoncrawle/Writers Workshop update/@comment-1874924-20100328034548

I'm now told that there is a slim hope for a lasting recovery. MIL's cardiologist is trying to get her into a trial for an experimental heart valve repair/replacement procedure that is much less invasive than current methods and so could presumably be performed on weaker patients. Even if she is accepted, though, it will still be 50-50 at best, because of the chance that she could end up in the control group.