St. Louis hospital begins using TAVR for lower-risk patients
SSM Health St. Louis University Hospital has recently begun using trancatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) to treat patients at intermediate risk for aortic valve replacement, according to a recent article by a St. Louis CBS affiliate.
The less invasive procedure is often safer for patients and reduces recovery time.
“This means people that are not just high risk, but kind of in between of risk…can get that aortic valve replaced with just an injection in their artery–in their leg,” said Richard Lee, a cardiac surgeon at SLU.
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