Structural Heart Disease
St. Luke's Structural Heart Program brings together cardiology experts who collaborate closely as a "Heart Team" to diagnose, treat, and manage structural heart conditions, prioritizing minimally invasive treatment.
Healing Hearts, Transforming Lives
Heart valve disease occurs when one or more of the heart’s valves fail to function properly due to issues like calcification or leaking. This can cause the heart to produce a murmur as blood is forced through the damaged valve. Symptoms typically appear when the disease becomes severe and may include shortness of breath with minimal activity, fatigue, chest pain, dizziness, and fainting. If left untreated, heart valve disease can significantly impact quality of life and may become life-threatening.
Structural heart disease refers to abnormalities in the heart’s structure, which may be present from birth or develop over time. These conditions can progress slowly and may be asymptomatic at first, but often lead to challenges in daily living. Common symptoms include shortness of breath, dizziness, chest tightness, and heart palpitations.
Comprehensive Care at St. Luke’s Structural Heart Program
At St. Luke’s, our Structural Heart Program brings together a multidisciplinary “Heart Team” of cardiology experts to diagnose, treat, and manage a wide range of structural heart conditions. These include aortic and mitral stenosis, pericardial disease, valvular heart disease, mitral regurgitation, and congenital heart disease.
We prioritize minimally invasive treatment options whenever appropriate, ensuring personalized care tailored to each patient’s condition. Our team includes interventional cardiologists, imaging specialists (such as interventional echocardiographers and cardiothoracic radiologists), and cardiovascular surgeons, all supported by highly trained procedural staff, nurses, and medical assistants.
This collaborative approach allows us to deliver comprehensive, patient-centered care aimed at improving your health and enhancing your quality of life.
We won’t only focus on what’s wrong. We’ll help you understand your condition and move forward in a way that supports your best heart health.
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Program Overview and Featured Procedures
Program Overview
Learn more about our multidisciplinary program and experts, as well as the leading edge procedures that allow you to avoid open heart surgery and improve your quality of life.
Additional Procedural Expertise
Interventional Cardiology
Beyond TAVR and TVMR, our expertise includes aortic valvuloplasty, atrial septal defect closure (ASD), left atrial appendage occlusion, ventricular septal defect closure (VSD), treatment of aortic coarctation, and patent foramen ovale closure (PFO).
Surgical Procedures
We also specialize in surgeries such as surgical aortic valve replacement or mitral valve replacement or repair.
Imaging
Non-invasive imaging in our nationally accredited imaging labs may include: 2D and 3D echocardiography, transesophageal echocardiography, cardiac MRI, cardiac CT scan, nuclear imaging, carotid imaging, and/or pulmonary function testing.
Additional Support
Follow-up Care
Patient and family education begins at the first visit and continues through follow-up.
St. Luke’s also offers nationally accredited cardiovascular rehabilitation to support recovery and long-term heart health.
Lifestyle Medicine
Achieving good health is about more than fixing problems after they appear. It begins with the choices we make every day for ourselves, our families, and our communities. Those choices are at the center of lifestyle medicine.
Trusted Resources
American Heart Association
The American Heart Association (AHA) is a national not-for-profit organization dedicated to fighting heart disease and helping families and communities thrive. Through their website, the AHA offers extensive information about a wide variety of cardiac conditions and treatments.
Our team trusts the resources provided by the American Heart Association and we encourage you to explore their site.