Presbyterian Heart & Vascular Care Providers
Our team of highly skilled doctors and clinicians offers a full range of heart-related services from diagnosis and treatment to monitoring.
We have a highly skilled team who can provide a wide range of services from diagnosis to treatment.
An aortic valve procedure is a surgery done to replace a diseased heart valve with a prosthetic (or artificial) valve. These values can be tissue (cow or pig) or mechanical. This procedure is performed on a patient who has been diagnosed with heart valve disease when more minimal treatments have not improved the condition.
Symptoms of heart valve disease may include rapid heartbeat, chest pain, dizziness, fatigue, or shortness of breath. Having the diseased valve replaced surgically leads to improved heart function and decreased symptoms.
Presbyterian Heart and Vascular Care features a skilled team of healthcare professionals who can provide a wide range of services from diagnosis to treatment. Their cardiothoracic surgeons are trained in some of the most innovative techniques in heart surgery, providing their patients with faster recoveries and less hospital time.
Patients who have been diagnosed with a damaged or diseased heart valve have not responded to conventional medical treatments and are not eligible for the more minimally invasive transcatheter aortic valve replacement procedure (TAVR).
You may require a chest X-ray, CT scan, electrocardiogram (EKG), echocardiogram, or other tests to determine whether the procedure is appropriate.
Aortic valve surgery treats aortic valve damage or diseases such as stenosis or regurgitation.
Both conditions can cause chest pain, fainting, shortness of breath, and leg swelling. Without valve replacement, they can lead to heart failure and sudden cardiac death.
In the days before surgery, your PHS doctor will go over what you should do to prepare and what you should expect. Typically, you will do the following:
Make arrangements for assistance after your surgery. It will take several weeks to recover to the point where you can drive again, return to work, and perform daily tasks.
The entire procedure takes two to five hours.
You will be moved out of ICU and into a regular hospital room once the care team is happy with your condition, and you will stay for a few days. Here, doctors make sure there are no signs of infection and will help to alleviate pain. Then, you will begin to work in regular movement and breathing exercises.
Before being released from the hospital, your care team will explain what you should do to recover as quickly as possible.
Our team of highly skilled doctors and clinicians offers a full range of heart-related services from diagnosis and treatment to monitoring.