Structural Heart Center
Expert, Multidisciplinary Care
The Structural Heart Center provides expert, multidisciplinary care for abnormalities of the heart and great arteries, including the heart muscle, heart valves and their supporting structures.
What is Structural Heart Disease?
Structural heart disease is any abnormality of the heart and great arteries, which may involve the heart muscle, heart valves and/or their supporting structures.
Traditional open heart surgery used to be the only effective option for most structural heart conditions. Now, our interventional cardiologists and cardiac surgeons also perform many nonsurgical and hybrid procedures for structural heart disease.
Structural Heart Conditions We Treat
- Aortic Valve Disease
- Atrial Fibrillation
- Atrial Septal Defect
- Cardiogenic Shock
- Cardiomyopathy
- Mitral Valve Disease
- Patent Ductus Arteriosus
- Patent Foramen Ovale
- Pulmonary Valve Disease
- Tricuspid Valve Disease
- Ventricular Septal Defect
Advanced Therapy for Aortic Stenosis
Valerie walked out of the hospital the day after her aortic valve was replaced through a minimally invasive procedure and said she felt like a clock had turned back ten years. Although not a candidate for open heart surgery, BIDMC patient Terry Chadbourne instead underwent a new, less invasive procedure: transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). It wasn't long before Terry returned to the golf course.
Heading Off Heart Failure
How Terry Got His Game Back