
A viable alternative to open-heart surgery
Why in news?
- TAVR offers lower risks of disabling strokes and death.
Name of procedure
- Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR)(1) The procedure has been reserved mostly for patients so old and sick they might not survive open-heart surgery.(2) Now two large clinical trials show that TAVR is just as useful in younger and healthier patients.
Source
The hindu