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Trans-catheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2012 for treatment of severe symptomatic aortic stenosis in non-surgical and high risk patients. Implementation of this complex procedure requires a comprehensive heart team approach. Rural demographics in the Midwest pose many challenges related to low volumes of operations both at institutional and individual levels, leading to serious concerns about the quality of care delivered in such a setting. We compared the TAVR data at the University of South Dakota Sanford Medical Center to the national registry with the aim of looking at differences in outcomes of this procedure in a rural setting.

We are reporting on a rare case of central nervous system tuberculosis (TB) in the state of South Dakota. Our case features one of the most infrequent forms of TB in the brain: multiple tuberculomas. A 44-year-old immunocompetent man was admitted complaining of a headache and fever for a week. His physical exam was unremarkable. A magnetic resonance imaging scan of his brain showed two ring-enhancing lesions. The largest lesion was excised surgically and the histopathology exam was consistent with tuberculoma. We will discuss in this report various aspects of this rare disease in term of epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment.