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Heart & Blood Health | Last Active: Jul 8 6:34am | Replies (151)

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@johnbflat

Thanks for sharing, Alex & EJ. Nice to hear from you both with more than 4 years on TARV and everything is still working well.
My wife & I are very cautious about prevention of a Covid infection. Several others in the family had Covid infections. They all being fully vacinated, as we both are, their cases were not worse than a regular cold or flu so it makes us wonder if we are being too cautious. Not knowing how Covid infections react to the bovine tissue in a TAVR value keeps us locked into being very cautious. Wishing there was more info.

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I have some of the same concerns. And because the natural bovine tissue in the TAVR valve isn’t connected to the circulatory system, I worry that the response of the immune system might be limited there.