Aortic Stenosis/TAVR/TAVI
Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) or transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is minimally invasive heart surgery performed to replace narrow aortic valves in the heart. TAVR/TAVI enables you to return to routine activity more quickly than open-heart surgery. Patients who have undertaken the procedure describe an enhancement in their quality of life shortly post-procedure. Additional benefits include a brief hospital stay, absence of chest marks and instant ease from symptoms, improved heart function, and reduced pain and worry.
The word aortic stenosis may seem alien, but the condition is one of the most common valvular heart diseases in the world. Usually seen in the elderly, with…
Your heart has four valves that pumps the blood throughout the body. These four valves work relentlessly to ensure blood supply to all the organs in the body.…
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I have mild to moderate AS now.It is since 1966 or so /or may be congenital.I dont have any problem except murmurs and may be running problem.I am 75 now .What I should do.