Docs perform 1st U.S. tricuspid valve replacement using TAVI device

Docs perform 1st U.S. tricuspid valve replacement using TAVI device-massdevice: MASSDEVICE ON CALL — Physicians at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit last month became the 1st in the U.S. to use a minimally invasive technique to replace a failing tricuspid valve. The team used a transcatheter aortic valve implant in the procedure, after the patient was turned down at 1 major medical center and doctors at another said her only option was a heart transplant.