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April 13, 2018
Among patients with severe aortic stenosis and prior CABG, aortic valve replacement is being increasingly done with transcatheter instead of surgical procedures, researchers reported.
TAVR is associated with similar in-hospital mortality but lower rates of in-hospital complications compared with surgical AVR in this population, Tanush Gupta, MD, from the division of cardiology at Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and colleagues wrote.