Found it! If any of you are interested this is a very good animation of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement. (Found this accidently while looking for something else) All things come to those that wait. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT-iH-Y1CUs

No, as Karen pointed it is a valve replacement procedure done using a catheter to replace a valve that is calcified or damaged in some other way.

Peggy, Thanks so much for sharing this!

I just had it done a week ago. It is a have replacement.

TAVR is a procedure. The aortic valve is made from either cow or pig tissue valves on a tiny metal frame. The valve could also be mechanical, which lasts longer but you need to be on Coumadin/Warfarin for as long as you have it.