{"id":35131,"date":"2022-08-11T09:47:59","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T14:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=35131"},"modified":"2022-08-11T09:54:54","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T14:54:54","slug":"stroke-tavr-cerebral-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2022\/08\/11\/stroke-tavr-cerebral-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"TAVR &#038; Stroke Risk: Top 5 Facts for Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patient interest in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/tavr-procedure.php\/\">transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR)<\/a> remains incredibly high for people with aortic stenosis. As you may know, TAVR does not require an incision to the patient&#8217;s chest or ribs. In addition, patients do not go on the heart-lung machine and some patients are in the hospital for just one day.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, patients are concerned about the stroke risk associated with TAVR procedures. For this reason, we just interviewed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/surgeons\/dr-Isaac-George-New+York+City-New%20York.php\">Dr. Isaac George<\/a>, a TAVR expert that has performed over 6,000 TAVRs, to learn more. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/tavr-stroke-risk-prevention-dr-isaac-george\/\">Click here to see my interview with Dr. George about TAVR and stroke risk.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/tavr-stroke-risk-prevention-dr-isaac-george\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/tavr-stroke-risk-dr-isaac-george-600.jpg\" alt=\"Stroke Risk, TAVR &amp; Cerebral Protection\" width=\"600\" height=\"314\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Many Thanks to Dr. Isaac George and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Center<\/h2>\n<p>On behalf of our patient and caregiver community, many thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/surgeons\/dr-Isaac-George-New+York+City-New%20York.php\">Dr. Isaac George<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/hospital\/columbia-heart-valve-center\">NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital<\/a> for supporting this website, our patient community and our educational initiatives!<\/p>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aortic-valve-replacement"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35131"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35139,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35131\/revisions\/35139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}