Patients Benefit From New Way to Replace Heart Valves at The Christ Hospital

2012 JUL 13 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health & Medicine Week -- Nearly one in every eight Americans aged 75 and older will be diagnosed with valvular heart disease. Many of these patients suffer from a severe form of valve disease that requires their diseased aortic valve to be replaced. Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) has been studied in clinical trials for patients whose heart valves need replacing, but are at increased risk for open-heart surgery because of reasons such as frailty, previous radiation to the chest or other pre-existing conditions. TAVR involves delivering a balloon-expandable valve to the heart via a small incision in...

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