Glad it helpped, but the cost savings at a rate of .014 over the other procedures is not very exciting. 7k out of 114k is hardly a major victory for the patient as the tone of the article try to imply.
This smacks of trying to squeeze justification from statistics like blood from a turnip to me.
If it truly was a breakthrough, you would not need such an extensive study to “prove “ it.
Problem is that with TAVR there is no chest cutting involved. I was out of the hospital in three days. I could not have survived another chest cutting.
And it is a major breakthrough. Pray that if you ever need it the technology will even be much more advanced.