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approve TAVR (Transcatheter aortic valve replacement) for healthy individuals

Created by E.B. on December 17, 2014

Right now the FDA only lets inoperable and high risk patients to receive this minimally intrusive procedure. All other healthy individuals have to receive an open heart surgery. TARV already have shown that works for all the high risk patient, why not also make available for healthy patients. I am not a doctor but the son of a healthy person that his only option in the United States is to have open heart surgery. The FDA needs to change that rule and more people will enjoy the quality of life they had before the operation.

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