
MURRIETA – Physicians at Loma Linda University Medical Center – Murrieta have completed 200 TAVR – transcatheter aortic valve replacement – procedures in two years, making it the first center to reach this milestone in the southwest Riverside County community.“Two hundred TAVR procedures in two years is a major milestone for any cardiac program, especially considering the challenges we faced during COVID-19,” interventional cardiologist Dr. Harit Desai, the associate director for the cardiac catheterization lab and structural heart intervention program at Loma Linda University Medical Center – Murrieta, said. “We are very happy to be able to continue providing TAVR and other cardiac procedures to our patients in a timely fashion.”Margaret Mills, a 76-year-old