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




Posted by Jawwad Kazi on 18th Mar 2019