# Surgical aortic valve replacement

Intervention · id `cardio:surgical-aortic-valve-replacement` · Cardiovascular Atlas · release `f6f6f1b6f50379ed` (public)

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Also called: SAVR; Open-heart aortic valve replacement

Browse, organ or system: Heart  
Browse, condition area: Valve and congenital heart disease  

## In plain language

An operation in which a surgeon replaces a diseased aortic valve with a mechanical valve or a biological (tissue) valve. It is the comparison for TAVR in the PARTNER 3 and Evolut Low Risk trials. A US government patient page lists stroke and blood clots among the risks of valve replacement, together with injury to the kidneys or heart.

## Technical summary

Open-heart valve replacement, as the comparison for catheter replacement. A US government patient page separates the surgical route from the catheter route and describes mechanical and biological (tissue) valves. In PARTNER 3 the registry describes the comparison as SAVR with a commercially available bioprosthetic valve; the Evolut Low Risk registry says commercial SAVR with a commercially approved surgical bioprosthesis. This record gives no outcome figures of its own: the trial claims are filed under TAVR and the record of the self-expanding valve.

## Connected pages

- Comparator: Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) (`cardio:tavr`)
- Filed under this front: Procedures and surgery (`cardio:front-procedures-and-surgery`)
- Investigated in: Evolut Low Risk trial (`cardio:evolut-low-risk`)
- Investigated in: PARTNER 3 trial (`cardio:partner-3`)

## Provenance

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Last substantive edit: 2026-10-15
Evidence last checked: 2026-10-14