www.Heart-Valve-Surgery.com - During this FREE and LIVE webinar, you will learn critical insights about the newest advances in transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). The featured speakers are Dr. Howard Herrmann, Director of Interventional Cardiology, and Dr. Robert Li, Co-Director of the TAVR Program, at Penn Medicine Heart and Vascular Center. The webinar is hosted by Adam Pick, the patient who founded HeartValveSurgery.com in 2006.
Patient questions addressed during the webinar include:
1. What is aortic valve disease? How does aortic valve disease progress? What are your health risks?
2. What are the different surgical, minimally-invasive and non-invasive techniques used to treat aortic valve disease?
3. What are the patient benefits of TAVR? How is TAVR performed? Are TAVR results superior to other forms of aortic valve replacement?
4. Which type of aortic valve patients qualify for TAVR? How is TAVR helping patients needing reoperations?
5. What are the newest advances in TAVR devices? What is the future of TAVR?
At the close of the webinar, a live "Questions & Answers" session patients asked Dr. Herrmann and Dr. Li, who are both leading interventional cardiologists in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, questions about TAVR and heart valve disease.