Cardiothoracic Surgery team performs region’s first robotic aortic valve replacement

Led by Jessica Rove, MD, associate professor of cardiothoracic surgery in the University of Colorado Anschutz Department of Surgery, the robotic cardiac team in the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery recently performed its first robotic aortic valve replacement (RAVR) surgery. It was the first such procedure performed in the mountain west. Only a few hundred robotic aortic valve replacements have been performed worldwide.