For patients with severe valvular disease who are not candidates for conventional valve repair surgery, the Valve and Structural Heart Center at Gagnon Cardiovascular Institute offers minimally invasive, catheter-based treatment options. Instead of removing the damaged valve, our heart specialists will replace the valve through a small incision in the leg or chest. Implantable devices such as the CoreValve or SAPIEN are inserted via a catheter and implanted into the heart. Our expert specialists offer the following catheter-based procedures:
- Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR)
- Balloon valvuloplasty (aortic, mitral)
- Transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR)
- Transcatheter mitral valve repair
- Transcatheter tricuspid valve repair (TTVR)
- Transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement
- Left atrial appendage (LAA) closure
- Atrial septal defect closure
- Patent foramen ovale closure
- Paravalvular leak repair
- Percutaneous atrial septal defect repair
- Percutaneous patent foramen ovale repair
- Percutaneous left atrial appendage occlusion with Watchman
- Complex PCI
- Endomyocardial biopsy
These non-surgical techniques can be life-saving for those considered low to high-risk for surgical valve therapies. Minimally invasive procedures enable patients to undergo advanced cardiovascular repairs with much shorter recovery times.
At the Forefront of Heart Care
Our highly skilled group of physicians will introduce you to novel therapies for your heart valve disease and give you access to the most advanced, state-of-the-art therapies within clinical trials only offered in the most experienced centers worldwide.