In which medicine slowly steals all procedures from the surgeons: TAVR vs SAVR for intermediate surgical risk patients.

Cardiologists are an inventive bunch — smart money says that they’ll be able to transplant an entire heart via an intravascular approach by 2020, and the more aggressive centers will do lungs at the same time via a radial approach. You laugh, but think about the first time you heard about transcatheter aortic-valve replacement. Avoiding […]