DAYTIME HIGHS FOR 50s AND
LOWER 60s.
JEN, OVER TO YOU.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH,
RICHARD.
A NEW OPTION FOR HEART PATIENTS
AT BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTER IS
CALLED THE TAVER PROCEDURE,
TRANSCATHETER CHAOTIC VALVE
PROCEDURE.
JOINING ME NOW THE EXPLAIN HOW
IT WORKS, HE WHO HAD THE
PROCEDURE LAST YEAR.
GOOD MORNING TO BOTH OF YOU,
THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.
LET ME START WITH YOU, HOW ARE
YOU FEELING BEFORE YOU HAD THIS
PROCEDURE?
IF WHAT WAS YOUR REACTION WHEN
YOU HEARD YOU NEEDED SIT IN.
COULD HARDLY WALK.
I WAS VERY SHORT OF BREATH.
AND JUST CONTINUE GET AROUND, I
COULDN'T DISTANCE, I COULDN'T DO
ANYTHING AND SO I COMPLAINED
ABOUT IT AND THEY SENT ME TO AND
WITHIN A FEW WEEKS I HAD THE
PROCEDURE AND I CAN BREATHE AND
I CAN DANCE AND I CAN LIVE
AGAIN.
I KNOW YOU'RE DOING YOGA,
YOU'RE VERY, VERY ACTIVE.
DID YOU HAVE ANY PREVIOUS HEART
PROBLEMS IN YOUR FAMILY?
OR DID THIS COME AS A COMPLETE
SURPRISE TO YOU?
IN ANOTHER I'M AWARE OF
MAYBE WAY BACK, I DON'T KNOW.
Jennifer: BUT YOU'RE 88
YEARS YOUNG.
YES.
IS THIS A TYPICAL PATIENT
YOU TYPICALLY SEE THEN FOR THIS
KIND OF PROCEDURE OTHER THAN THE
FACT SHE'S AS SPICY AS ALL GET
OUT?
EXACTLY, WE WERE TALKING, IT
WAS HER BOY TBLOAND SAID
APPELLATE'S GET SOMETHING DONE
BECAUSE JURY SORT OF BREATH WHEN
ANSWER AING.
WE GOT PRETTY ANNOYED WITH
US USES, AND SHE WANT TO BE GIVE
DISTANCE AND DO WHAT SHE WANTED
TO DO AND BACK THIS THE DAY SHE
WOULD HAVE REQUIRED A OPEN HEART
SURGERY, A EC BIG INCISION AND A
WEEK OR TWO IN THE HOSPITAL AND
ANYTHING CAN GO WRONG IN THE
ELDERLY, HER RISK WAS MUCH
HIGHER FOR OPEN HEART AND SHE
TOLD ME NO MATTER WHAT SHE
DIDN'T WANT SURGERY.
SO THIS WAS THE ACTUAL PROCEDURE
THAT COULD PREVENT SURGERY AND
FIX HER AND GET HER BACK TO
DOING WHAT SHE WANTED TO DO.
Jennifer: IN A MATTER OF
WEEKS.
CAN YOU WALK US THROUGH A LITTLE
BIT AND IT BEING LESS INVASIVE
IS ALWAYS GOOD NEWS.
HOW DOES IT WORK EXACTLY BECAUSE
IT IS A CATHETER; RIGHT?
YES.
WHAT WE'LL DO WITH THIS
PROCEDURE IS GO FROM THE LEG AND
INSERT A DEVICE LIEU AN ARTERY
AND TRACKS UP TO THE HEART AND
WE GO THROUGH THE MAIN VESSEL IN
THE BODY UP TO THE HEART AND THE
VALVE IS ACTUALLY ON ACAT AUTHER
AND IT IS REALLY ON TOP OF THE
CATHETER AND WE PUT THE CATHETER
ON TOP OF THE EXPRAFL BY USING A
SPECIAL SHEET OVER THE VALVE IT
IS RELEASED AND THE VALVE GETS
IMPLANTED BY THAT.
WE DO THIS PROCEDURE TYPICALLY
UNDER GENERAL AN SYMPATHETICKIC
AND DOES MAYBE AN HOUR TO ODO
AND THE PERSON AFTERWARDS MAKES
A UP AND THEY'RE NOT ABLE TO
WALK RIGHT AWAY BUT WITHIN A
DAY.
I REMEMBER BECAUSE I HAD A
FRIEND WHO MANY, MANY YEARS AGO
HAD TO HAVE A PIG VALVE.
IS THIS HOW IN PLACE OF THIS?
THIS IS THE PIG VALVE.
IT IS JUST THERE THE CATHETER.
THE PIG VALVE ON TOP OF THE
DEVICE THAT WE PUT IN.
IS THIS A COMMON PROBLEM
THEN OR A SMALLER GROUP OF THE
POP LAWTION WHO NEEDS THIS
PROCEDURES.
THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST
COMMON PROBLEMS IS THE AORTIC
VALVE STENOSIS AND THE SYMPTOMS
ARE WHAT SHE HAD.
SHE'S BEEN A MODEL PATIENT.
AM MAIGZ, SHE IS FROM CALIFORNIA
AND HER -- AMAZING.
SHE IS FROM CALIFORNIA AND HER
CHILDREN ARE OUT THERE.
THIS MEANT A LOT FOR HER TO
RECOVER QUICKLY AND BE AROUND
AND YOU CAN SEE HER TODAY.
Jennifer: WONDERFUL, SPEND
TIME AS MUCH AS YOU CAN WITH THE
BABIES AND GREAT GRAND BABIES.
WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE THING TO
DO NOW, DANCING WITH YOUR BOY
FRIEND.
YEAH, WE GO DANCING.
WE'RE VERY ACTIVE AND I DO A LOT
OF READING AND I DO A LOT OF
CROCHETING AND I TRY TO
VOLUNTEER.
Jennifer: THANK YOU FOR
BEING HERE AND SHARING YOUR
STORY.
SHE'S A BIG SUPER BOWL FAN.
Jennifer: YOU HAVE A
PREDICTION.
OH, YEAH, DENVER IS GOING TO
WIN.
Jennifer: YOU HEARD IT
HERE, ETHANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.
FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS
HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT
PROCEDURE YOU CAN VISIT