A viable alternative to open-heart surgery

TAVR offers lower risks of disabling strokes and death.

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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.

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