Structural Heart Program
Your heart deserves quality care, and our board certified physicians at the Palm Beach Health Network are specially trained to perform valve procedures to replace or repair the aortic valve. Our team approach speeds up the process of evaluating the problem from weeks or months down to just one day.
Structural Heart Disease
Your heart has four valves with tissue flaps that open and close with every heartbeat. These flaps act as a roadmap for the heart, guiding blood flow in the right direction through the four chambers of your heart and throughout your body. Structural heart disease refers to conditions that affect your heart's valves, walls, chambers, or muscles. When these problems occurs, our dedicated team of heart experts are here to help you at the Palm Beach Health Network's Structural Heart Programs.
Types of Structural Heart Disease
The main types of structural heart disease are:
- Heart valve disease - A problem with any of the four valves that open and close to control blood flow.
- Cardiomyopathy - A disease involving the heart muscle.
- Congenital heart disease - Structural heart problems that you have at birth.
Navigating Your Care
The Structural Heart Program and Valve Clinics in the Palm Beach Health Network are designed to make your visit more efficient, saving you time away from work or home by making sure you can be seen by our entire team in just one day.
The Structural Heart Program encompasses interventional technology as well as the latest in structural heart innovations. The variety of minimally-invasive treatment options gives patients a wide range of personalized choices with the ability to make an educated decision based on their specific diagnosis.
A patient navigator will make all the necessary appointments and schedule you with one of our cardiologists and a cardiovascular surgeon, who are skilled in some of the most innovative valve procedures, and work together to develop your personalized care plan.
Heart Valve Clinic
Your heart deserves quality care, and our board certified physicians at the Palm Beach Health Network are specially trained to perform valve procedures to replace or repair the aortic valve. Our team approach speeds up the process of evaluating the problem from weeks or months down to just one day.
When you visit our valve clinic, your appointment will have a number of steps. First, you will receive an evaluation by the cardiovascular surgeon where you’ll review together your prior diagnostic studies. If there is any additional testing required, such as an echocardiogram or CT scan, we complete it at this time.
Once all testing has been performed, your doctors will take your individual characteristics into account and work together to determine the most effective approach for your care. We promise to work closely with your personal cardiologist to ensure a smooth transition back into their care once your treatment with us is over.
Heart Team Approach
Our program utilizes the "Heart Team" approach, bringing together a network of experienced physicians from cardiology, endovascular surgery, cardiothoracic surgery, interventional radiology and advanced cardiovascular imaging. The Heart Team approach ensures patients receive an individualized care plan with many ways to treat heart disease – in the clinic, the catheterization lab or the operating room.
