The Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute team recently reached a milestone: their 500th transaortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedure. TAVR is a minimally invasive procedure where doctors put a replacement directly inside the narrowing valve to widen and strengthen it, similar to putting a stent into an artery.
The team generally does more than 220 of these cases a year, establishing Sanger as a volume leader in the region.
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