Infirmary Health Performs First TMVR Procedure In Region

Infirmary Health’s Heart & Vascular Institute successfully performed the first transfemoral mitral valve-in-valve transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR) in the Mobile region. The procedure was performed by Dr. Chad McRee, structural cardiologist with Cardiology Associates, who was assisted by Dr. William Johnson, III, cardiothoracic surgeon with Cardio-Thoracic & Vascular Surgical Associates, and the catheterization laboratory team at Mobile Infirmary. TMVR replaces the mitral valve in the heart without needing conventional open-heart surgery. It  is minimally invasive and uses a catheter-based approach for patients whose existing mitral valve (native or prosthesis) is diseased and failing.