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told me I needed my aortic valve
replaced. That's when he sent me
over to see Dr. Abbas in Munster.
The rest is history."

TAVR TO THE RESCUE

Community Healthcare System's
team of specialists at the Structural
Heart & Valve Center are mending
hearts and saving lives with transcatheter aortic valve replacement,
or TAVR. A less invasive procedure
than open-heart surgery, TAVR
gives hope to patients like Helvie,
who suffer from severe heart disease
but are not ideal candidates for a
complex open-heart surgery.
"The hospitals of
Community Healthcare System
have a well-established history of
providing excellence in cardiac care
from routine screenings to complex

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Read about
Mick Jagger's
TAVR procedure
on page 16.

Bob Helvie is able to enjoy his great-grandchildren,
Tommy and newborn Mia, now that he is on the mend
thanks to TAVR.

treatments," says Samer Abbas, MD,
medical director of Cardiovascular
Services at Community Hospital.
"That is why we are uniquely positioned to spearhead programs such
as TAVR that benefit the entire
Northwest Indiana community. We
completed the first TAVR procedure
here in January 2017. Since then, we
have performed more than 300 successful procedures, averaging three
cases per week. More than 60 percent of those patients return home
the following day."
TAVR does not require the
patient to be placed on a bypass
machine to breathe. Instead, under
sedation, a catheter is inserted
either into the arm or the groin and
threaded through an artery to the
heart to deliver the replacement

valve. The original damaged aortic valve is left in place. Once the
new valve is set in position and
expanded, it pushes the original
valve leaflets out of the way and
the tissue in the replacement valve
takes over the job of regulating
blood flow.
The TAVR team includes interventional cardiologist Samer
Abbas, MD; cardiothoracic/cardiovascular surgeons Mehdi AkhavanHeidari, MD, Cris Carlos, MD,
Michael Eng, MD, Jason Frazier,
MD, and Vsevolod Tikhomirov,
MD; as well as interventional cardiologist David Stewart, MD.
"Traditional valve replacement
requires a complex open-heart
procedure with a 'sternotomy' that
surgically opens the chest during
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