Articles tagged with 'TAVR' | OSF HealthCare

The Watchman procedure helps prevent strokes in people who can’t use blood thinners.

Approved by the FDA in 2011, transcatheter aortic valve replacement, or TAVR, deals with a thickened aortic valve in the heart that can’t fully open.

A cutting edge heart valve replacement procedure has improved greatly since its inception over a decade ago. Now new valve technology could advance TAVR even further.