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.
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.
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.
The heart has four chambers and four heart valves (the aortic, mitral, tricuspid, and pulmonary valves). They must open and close in harmony for blood to flow in the proper direction. When a structural abnormality affects the functioning of one of the heart’s valves, it is called heart valve disease.
Patients preparing for open heart surgery may be envisioning a long recovery period, stuck in bed for weeks at a time. That’s no longer the case thanks to safer surgeries, anesthesia and pain management.
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