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5 hours agoAortic Valve Replacements and Surgery Show Similar Long-Term Survival Rates - News Center
The findings supplement previous results from the PARTNER 3 trial, which found that patients who underwent a transcatheter aortic valve replacement, or TAVR - a minimally invasive procedure in which the narrowed aortic valve is replaced via percutaneous access with wires and catheters through the femoral artery - demonstrated similar five-year survival rates to patients who underwent traditional aortic-valve replacement surgery.
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