Glossary/Valve Disease

TAVR.

Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement. A minimally invasive procedure to replace a diseased aortic valve without open-heart surgery. A catheter is threaded through a blood vessel (usually the femoral artery) and a new valve is expanded inside the old one.

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What is tavr?

Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement. A minimally invasive procedure to replace a diseased aortic valve without open-heart surgery. A catheter is threaded through a blood vessel (usually the femoral artery) and a new valve is expanded inside the old one.

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Related Terms

Related glossary terms.

Aortic Stenosis
Narrowing of the aortic valve that restricts blood flow from the heart to the body. The most comm...
SAVR
Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement. An open-heart procedure to remove a diseased aortic valve and ...
Bioprosthetic Valve
A replacement heart valve made from animal tissue (usually pig or cow). Bioprosthetic valves typi...
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