Heart Surgery

This may be your best option for treating coronary artery disease when medication and lifestyle changes are no longer effective and less-invasive procedures won’t work as well. It is among the most common open-heart surgeries performed.

In some instances, open surgery may be the most effective way to prevent larger aortic aneurysms from rupturing.

This involves using a patch or sutures to close a hole between the walls of the upper, or atrial, chambers of the heart. It is usually performed on a child by the age of 5 and may eliminate the need for future surgery or medications related to the defect.

If you experience cardiogenic shock, we can use extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) to divert your blood to a heart-lung machine so your heart and lungs can heal. If you need long-term circulatory support due to advanced heart failure, we can implant ventricular assist devices (VAD).

Open surgery may be the only or the best way to remove tumors and other masses in your heart and blood vessels that can obstruct blood flow.

If you have hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, your care team may recommend this surgery, during which a surgeon uses a scalpel to remove (resect) the part of your heart wall obstructing blood flow to the aorta.

This catheter-based procedure is often the first step your provider will take when medication becomes ineffective in treating atrial fibrillation. It involves using heat or cold to create scars in the atria to block electrical signals that cause A-fib.

Transcatheter mitral valve repair (TMVR) is a less invasive procedure used to repair mitral valve leakage caused by a congenital heart defect.

Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) is a less invasive catheter-based treatment for those with narrowing of the heart valve. During the procedure, a wire mesh valve gets inserted into the heart through an artery in the chest or leg.