The Structural Heart Disease Center and Valve Clinic

• We provide you with the most advanced minimally invasive treatment modalities for valve repair, even if you were previously thought to be untreatable.
• A multidisciplinary team of specialty physicians in cardiac surgery, vascular surgery, cardiac imaging, and interventional cardiology.
• Our Hybrid OR enables our multidisciplinary team of heart specialists – cardiac surgeons, vascular surgeons, interventional cardiologists and radiologists- to provide diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in the same room at the same time, thereby improving our efficiency and patient outcomes. The room has leading-edge radiological imaging combined with the safety and resources of an operating room.

• Aortic and mitral valve stenosis
• Atrial septal defects (ASDs)
• Coronary artery stenosis and total occlusions
• Left main coronary stenosis
• Patent foramen ovale (PFO)
• Paravalvular leaks

Treatment options for structural heart disease include: 

• Balloon aortic valvuloplasty (BAV): Minimally invasive procedure that uses a balloon catheter to widen a narrowed heart valve in order to improve blood flow.
• Closure of atrial septal defect (ASD)
• Closure of patent foramen ovale (PFO)
• Complex coronary angioplasty: Minimally invasive procedure to open a narrowed artery by inflating a small balloon inside the artery to widen the vessel and increase the blood flow to the heart.
• Coronary artery stenting: The insertion of a stent (a tube-shaped device) to keep arteries open in the treatment of coronary heart disease.
• Left main coronary angioplasty: Minimally invasive procedure to open the left main coronary artery.
• Valvuloplasty: Minimally invasive procedure to treat aortic and mitral valve stenosis (narrowing of the valves).
• Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR): An innovative minimally invasive procedure in which the aortic valve is replaced without open surgery.
• Transcatheter closure for paravalvular leak: A procedure to close a small opening between the upper and lower chambers of the heart around the outside of a heart valve.