Snaking a catheter through an artery in your groin and up to your heart might not sound like “fun” but when compared to open-heart surgery you have to ask yourself “eh, Why not?” Nearly 40 percent of all patients requiring aortic heart valve replacement are forced to live with a higher likelihood death due to heart failure because they are considered “inoperable”. UCLA’s new transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) solves this problem, and could ...
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