Here are some ideas on how to restore pH balance to your diet, support healthy digestion, keep blood pH levels on track, and protect your bones and kidneys, too. 1  Take a high-quality daily multivitamin. 2  This will offset any nutritional gaps and insure that your body has the reserves it needs.
TAVR or TAVI stands for transcatheter aortic valve replacement. It is an exciting technology that allows physicians to fix a severely narrowed aortic valve (aortic stenosis) without opening up the patient's chest. What is aortic stenosis? Aortic stenosis is a condition that results from narrowing of the aortic valve of the heart.
During a TAVI or TAVR procedure, a catheter about the size of a pen, is inserted in the artery in the leg and carefully passed up into the heart. One type of TAVR valve, made of bovine (cow) tissue and supported on a metal stent, is then implanted inside the narrowed valve resulting in a normal functioning aortic valve. With a TAVR procedure, the patient does not need the chest opened for surgery or put on a heart-lung (bypass) machine.