Thirty years after meeting on a football field at the University of Michigan, the friendship of Ari Mintzer and Dr. Eric Roselli took an interesting turn.<\/p>\n
Ari, an attorney from Highland Park, Illinois, needed help.\u00a0 His first aortic valve replacement, implanted in 2007, was failing.\u00a0 He was short of breath. Ari needed another heart surgery.\u00a0 During his search for answers, Ari called Dr. Eric Roselli<\/a>, his old friend, who was now the Chief of Adult Cardiac Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic and an aortic valve specialist.<\/p>\n This is the story of Ari and Dr. Roselli, their friendship, and their shared-decision making processes as patient and surgeon.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n