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Death, Stroke, and Hospitalization while Waiting for TAVR

Death, Stroke, and Hospitalization while Waiting for TAVR

The consequences of deferring transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedures because of the COVID 19 pandemic are piling up. Untreated severe aortic stenosis patients who had been scheduled for TAVR are seeing increased risk of all events, even mortality.  According to recent studies published in JAMA, deferring TAVR in patients with symptomatic aortic stenosis is

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