Members of a clan can recognise each other by their smell. The badger has a special opening (called the subcaudal gland) under its tail, which produces a smelly liquid called musk. This musk is a soapy cream-coloured fatty substance (a bit like margarine in colour and texture).
The total average cost of the TAVI procedure was â¬ 22,876, of which 85% was attributable to the valve price, 7% to other material, 7% to staffing and 1% to logistics (Table 2).
TAVI or TAVR stands for transcatheter aortic valve replacement. Currently, this is an option for patients with severe aortic stenosis causing symptoms that are too high risk for standard valve replacement surgery. During a TAVI or TAVR procedure, a catheter about the size of a pen, is inserted in the artery in the leg and carefully passed up into the heart.