A recent journal scan reviews a study that determined the number of aortic valve replacements (AVRs) performed in France, changes over time and the effect of adopting transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). Collecting all consecutive AVRs performed in France from 2007 – 2015 based on a French administrative hospital-discharge database, the authors concluded that the number of AVRs markedly increased in France due to the wide adoption of TAVR, which represented one-third of all AVRs in 2015. Read more on ACC.org.