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Edward’s Heart Valve Program Helps WWII Concentration Camp Survivor Through Cardiac Issues

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Leon Lasota, 92, a survivor of the Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald in World War II, was up and walking around at Edward Hospital the morning after transcatheter catheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) surgery.
Since June 2012, the heart valve team at Edward Heart Hospital has performed nearly 50 transcatheter aortic valve replacements (TAVR) for patients with severe aortic stenosis, making it one of the busiest TAVR programs in Illinois. Aortic s

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