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TAVR was just the right procedure for one patient's "rusty" heart valve

December 20, 2024 Swedish Heart & Vascular Team

In this article: 

  • Watch KING5's recent special "Your Heath: Today & Beyond" featuring our experts who are practing some of the nation's most advanced specialized medicine. 
  • Meet patient Larry Finegold and Dr. Sameer Gafoor. Dr. Gafoor and his team replaced on eof Larry's heart valves using a minimmaly invasive known as TAVR. 
  • Meet some of our other caregivers in cancer, maternal and behavioral health care.

Attorney Larry Finegold tured to the experts at the Swedish Heart and Vascular when he needed to have a heart valve replaced. He met with Sameer Gafoor, M.D., who leads the nationally recognized structural heart team at Providence Swedish. 

Knowing Larry wanted minimal downtime, Dr. Gafoor recommened Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement, or TAVR,  for him. TAVR is an alternative to more invasive open heart surgery that requires less cutting and less recovery time.  

Larry and Dr. Gafoor were featured on "Your Health: Today & Beyond" a recent special Seattle's NBC affiliate KING5-TV. The show highlighted programs abd experts in several specialties who are bringing the latest treatments, research and technology to Providence Swedish. 

You can watch Larry's TAVR story here. 

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