Video: Medical milestone: McKay-Dee Hospital celebrates 500 life-saving heart valve replacements

500 and counting. That’s the number of life-saving TAVR procedures performed at Intermountain McKay-Dee Hospital in the last eight years.

“Every single one of those represents a patient that we’ve helped in our community,” said Dr. Eric Lindley, medical director for cardiovascular services at McKay-Dee Hospital and the Intermountain North area market.

For patients with heart conditions like aortic stenosis, which occurs when the valve narrows and fails to open properly, a transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is far less invasive than open-heart surgery.

“It’s really revolutionized how we treat this disease,” Lindley said.

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