The Heart Hospital Baylor Plano recently achieved a major milestone, performing its 1,000th transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). This revolutionary heart procedure is an alternative to open heart surgery that only requires a needle stick in the leg artery and allows most patients to leave the hospital the same day, or the day after surgery. The hospital was one of the first five teams to perform a TAVR procedure in the U.S., and was a leader in the research trials that led to U.S. Food