What to expect when recovering from TAVI?

What can I expect when I'm recovering? So, as long as the procedure is uncomplicated, most patients immediately feel better, having had their valve replaced and symptoms of breathlessness or exertional chest pain or lethargy are significantly improved. One may get some discomfort around the kind of leg areas where we've advanced the tubes with some pain, bleeding and bruising, but often that can be treated with simple painkillers, for example, paracetamol and just some rest. But you are mobile almost within a day of your procedure. And indeed, we would advocate that you are mobile and keep getting around doing things just to ensure that you continue your physical conditioning and your rehabilitation from that procedure. So on the whole, the procedure is very well tolerated. And other than some mild symptoms of discomfort, it's very rare to suffer any other sort of intrusive or debilitating symptoms in the absence of a complication.