First Trans-Catheter Patient Interviewed

Here is a video that I took of our first trans-catheter aortic valve replacment (TAVR) patient less than 2 hours after his surgery.  Mr. Check has given us permission to show you this video and tell his story.  Mr. Check was considered too high risk for conventional open heart surgery and therefore he was referred to our team for consideration of our new, minimally invasive heart valve replacement procedure known as trans-catheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR).  Mr. Check was the first patient at Lehigh Valley Health Network to undergo the new trans-catheter aortic vavle replacement surgery and thus the first patient in our region to receive the new SAPIEN valve locally!