The physicians in the Structural Heart Disease Program specialize in treating the full spectrum of structural heart disease, both congenital and acquired, including:

• Atrial septal defects
• Ventricular septal defects
• Patent foramen ovale
• Aortic valve disease
• Aortic valve regurgitation
• Aortic valve stenosis
• Heart valve disease
• Mitral valve disease
• Mitral valve prolapse
• Mitral valve regurgitation
• Mitral valve stenosis
• Tricuspid valve disease

At Temple, patients have access to advanced treatments and therapies for structural heart disease, including catheter-based procedures for heart repair and new medications designed to relieve symptoms, slow progression or prevent complications.

Structural heart disease procedures offered at Temple include:

• Valve repairs with open heart surgery
• Endovascular repair of bicuspid valve, enlarged valve or torn valve
• Transcatheter aortic valve insertion (TAVI) or transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR)
• Ross switch procedure
• Alvuloplasty
• Commissurotomy
• Annuloplasty
• Decalcification
• MitraClipTM repair
• Mitral balloon valvuloplasty/balloon valvulotomy
• Mitral prolapse repair
• Mitral valve replacement
• Aortic valve surgery
• Heart valve surgery
• Mitral valve surgery
• Percutaneous valve procedures
• Tricuspid valve surgery