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UAB is the only hospital in Alabama to perform 500 TAVR cases.
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James Landis’ personal cardiologist says his 88-year-old patient’s heart went from roaring like a freight train to humming like a fine-tuned engine after procedure.
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UAB surgeons patched mitral and tricuspid valve leaks, which eliminated Terry Maddox’s fluid retention and got her congestive heart failure to drop from a Class 4 to Class 1.
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Donald Rabren came in to have open-heart surgery until a surgeon discovered great risk in continuing and elected to close him up and do a different procedure three days later.
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Valve-in-valve treatments are becoming more necessary as patients get older and outlive their original replacement heart valves.
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Earnest Tate saw his overall health slipping before enduring a heart attack. Then he went to UAB Hospital.
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Alabama’s largest comprehensive heart valve program offers TAVR, numerous valve replacement and repairs, perileak closure, and other structural heart procedures.
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