(Photo Provided with Release Courtesy of Allegheny Health Network)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) According to a release from Allegheny Health Network, cardiac experts from Pittsburgh’s Allegheny Health Network’s (AHN) Allegheny General Hospital announced on Friday that they are the first in the region and among the first in the state to successfully perform a transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement (TTVR), which is a minimally invasive procedure used to treat a complex heart condition known as tricuspid valve regurgitation. This procedure used a recently FDA-approved heart valve from Edwards Life Sciences, the EVOQUE Tricuspid Valve Replacement System and it was performed by interventional cardiologist David Lasorda, DO; imaging cardiologist, Gregorius Lygouris, MD; and cardiac surgeon Walter McGregor, MD.