{"id":7257,"date":"2017-01-25T13:06:41","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T20:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/today\/?p=7257"},"modified":"2021-07-08T11:55:08","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T17:55:08","slug":"uchealth-memorial-hospital-now-offers-advanced-less-invasive-heart-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/today\/uchealth-memorial-hospital-now-offers-advanced-less-invasive-heart-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"UCHealth Memorial Hospital now offers advanced, less-invasive heart surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>In another sign of providing advanced care close to home, UCHealth Memorial Hospital performed its first-ever TAVR \u2013 Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement \u2013 surgeries on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Peter Walinsky, a new cardiac surgeon at Memorial, performed the innovative \u00a0surgeries on three people, ages 90, 87 and 80, in a new cardiac suite Thursday at Memorial Hospital Central.<\/p>\n<p>Since its approval by the Food and Drug Administration in late 2011, TAVR has been used mostly in patients who have a heart-valve condition called aortic stenosis but are too high of a risk for the traditional open-heart surgery required for aortic valve replacement.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7264\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7264\" style=\"width: 286px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7264 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/01\/28144440\/walinskyphoto1.webp\" alt=\"Headshot of Dr. Peter Walinsky\" width=\"286\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/01\/28144440\/walinskyphoto1.webp 800w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/01\/28144440\/walinskyphoto1-286x300.webp 286w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/01\/28144440\/walinskyphoto1-768x806.webp 768w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/01\/28144440\/walinskyphoto1-143x150.webp 143w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/01\/28144440\/walinskyphoto1-200x210.webp 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 286px) 100vw, 286px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7264\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Peter Walinsky performs TAVR surgery at Memorial Hospital Central<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>TAVR is a less-invasive procedure in which a team of heart surgeons and interventional cardiologists works together to place a collapsible artificial valve into the heart through a patient\u2019s artery. The doctor advances a catheter through the femoral artery or enters through a vessel closer to the heart.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For older people, frail people and other high-risk patients who would not tolerate open-heart surgery well, this is a good option,&#8221; said Paula Johnson, a nurse practitioner in the TAVR program at Memorial Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson said those who were operated on Thursday were ready to be discharged Friday, only 24 hours after their surgeries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir families are very surprised at how quickly they are able to recover,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>More TAVR procedures are scheduled in January.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Walinsky spent nine years at Johns Hopkins University Hospital before moving west to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he started what was at the time the only TAVR program in New Mexico. 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