Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) Program

Montefiore Einstein Center for Heart and Vascular Care offers patients treatment solutions for a full spectrum of mechanical and biological valve replacement, with expert surgical repair from our interdisciplinary team of surgeons and physicians. We’re ranked in the top 1% of all hospitals in the nation for Cardiology, Heart & Vascular Surgery according to U.S. News & World Report. Our team has extensive and highly specialized expertise in a leading surgical alternative known as transcatheter aortic valve replacement, or TAVR.

When conventional valve repair or replacement is not an option, we offer a leading surgical alternative: transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), a procedure in which a bioprosthetic valve is threaded via a catheter through the femoral artery into the heart. Once in position, balloon valvuloplasty is performed to deploy the replacement valve and its frame within the diseased native aortic valve. The procedure is performed in a hybrid catheterization lab and, once perfected, often takes less than an hour. Montefiore Einstein was among the first nationwide to be selected to launch its TAVR program over a decade ago.