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Overview

Our cardiac surgeons perform repairs and replacements on all cardiac heart valves. A multidisciplinary valve team of cardiac surgeons and cardiologists collaborates to offer the best available options for valve disease treatment, whether open heart surgery or transcatheter procedures.

Our surgeons use the newest generation of biological or mechanical valve options. Operations are performed through a small incision on the right side of the chest whenever possible, allowing our patients to recover faster.

Yale New Haven Hospital was the first hospital in Connecticut to receive Transcatheter Valve Center Certification through the American College of Cardiology. Certification recognizes the hospital’s expertise in transcatheter valve repair and replacement procedures.

 

Specialized Treatments and Procedures

Mitral valve repair and replacement

Our highly successful mitral valve disease program offers a comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach to manage complex mitral valve disease.

The Heart and Vascular Center received the Mitral Valve Repair Reference Center Award for 2023 by the American Heart Association and the Mitral Foundation for demonstrated superior clinical outcomes resulting from evidence-based, guideline-directed degenerative mitral valve repair.

Learn more about mitral valve surgery

Aortic valve repair and replacement

We offer an aortic valve repair and replacement program aimed at treating aortic valve stenosis. We are the premier cardiac surgery facility in Connecticut to provide treatment to repair leaking aortic bicuspid and tricuspid aortic valves.

Aortic valve replacement can be done surgically or through  transcatheter aortic valve replacement  (TAVR). Surgery may use a biological or mechanical valve. Minimally invasive aortic valve replacement may also be a treatment option and would involve a single two- to three-inch long incision in the upper part of the chest.

Valve repair can also be performed in conjunction with surgery for aneurysm of the ascending aorta or aortic root.

Learn about aortic valve reconstructive surgery

Yale School of Medicine

Yale New Haven Health is proud to be affiliated with the prestigious Yale University and its highly ranked Yale School of Medicine.