Structural Heart & Valve
At Grandview Medical Center, we provide advanced therapies for the treatment of valvular and structural heart disease.
The team consists of interventional cardiologists, echocardiologists, cardiothoracic surgeons, nurse practitioners and an entire support staff who specialize in heart valve disease management. We value shared decision making with the patient, family and physicians involved and discuss cases among the multidisciplinary team to ensure the best possible outcomes for our patients.
Valve clinic coordinators are here to educate the patient and family on heart valve disease, develop an individualized plan of care and offer support and guidance along your journey.
We offer traditional surgical and transcatheter treatment options.
- Aortic valve replacement
- Mitral valve repair
- Mitral valve replacement
- Valve-in-valve procedures
- Balloon valvuloplasty
- Paravalvular leak closure
Transcatheter procedures are minimally invasive and use a catheter to implant a new valve or repair an existing valve. The most common approach is through your femoral artery. Most transcatheter patients are up walking 4-6 hours post procedure, spend 1 to 2 nights in the ICU and are discharged home from there.
Balloon valvuloplasty is a percutaneous treatment option that can be used to help bridge an unstable patient to valve replacement at a later time or as a palliative measure for patients not deemed a candidate for either treatment.
Surgeon led therapies such as traditional open chest valve surgery, also commonly referred to as open heart surgery.