Structural heart disease, or cardiac defects that do not affect the heart’s blood vessels, often demand the combined services of the Heart & Vascular Institute’s interventional cardiologists and cardiovascular surgeons.
Here are the highlights:
Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: A replacement aortic valve placed within the original, via a catheter.
Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement: A replacement mitral valve placed within the existing surgically replaced valve, via a catheter.
For patients with degenerative mitral regurgitation who are not candidates for traditional surgery. This procedure does not require opening the chest or stopping the heart temporarily.
A hole in the heart everyone is born with but only 25 percent of the general population retains.
When blood collects, then clots, in the left atrial appendage of patients with atrial fibrillation.