MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Annapoorna Kini, MD Zena and Michael A Wiener Professor of Medicine Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory Mount Sinai Heart at Mount Sinai Hospital MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study?  

• Expanding indication and use of Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) poses a unique problem of coronary access after valve implantation.
• Troubleshooting tools and techniques have been published but are not available at the fingertips of the user at all the times.
• We tried to address this unique problem with an innovative educational mobile application (app) called "TAVRcathAID".

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