Mick

[oo0My_Valve0oo]

My searches here and outside the forum have not suppled an answer. I know it was TAVR and he was active to Mick standards within weeks. Did he get a mechanical or bioprothesis?

 

[MdaPA]

I understood that for TAVR procedures, tissue, not mechanical valves, are used so they can be collapsed for insertion through a catheter and then expanded for implantation at the valve site. Have you read that they are implanting mechanical valves via TAVR now?

 

[Chuck C]

If he received a TAVR valve, then it is a bioprosthesis. There are no TAVR mechanical valves currently.

 

[Protimenow]

I'm not sure that they CAN do TAVR on mechanical valves. I can apparently benefit from ablation of a node above my St. Jude aortic valve -- the doctors don't want to go anywhere near the mechanical valve because this will stop it from working and would kill me. I suspect that trying to put a bioprosthetic valve below the mechanical could also risk causing the mechanical to fail. (Further, since mechanicals can last DECADES, why would you need a TAVR in this position anyway?