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Comprehensive Care for Structural Heart Disease
Since 2013, the Structural Heart Program at Monument Health has been a collaborative effort between cardiothoracic surgery and interventional cardiology. Board-certified cardiologists specialize in treating conditions and diseases using minimally invasive catheter-based therapies.
- Our team provides a vast experience in performing transcatheter and open surgical heart valve replacements and repairs, nearly xxxx TAVR procedures since 2013.
- Our team participates in clinical trials to ensure the most state-of-the-art technology for our patients.
What We Treat
If the aortic valve in your heart is too narrow or doesn’t open completely, it can reduce the amount of oxygen-rich blood leaving your heart and slow its flow into the body. Our team treats patients with aortic valve disease, as well as those who have developed problems from previous heart valve procedures. Our team can address a damaged or diseased valve in several ways:
- Balloon aortic valvuloplasty.
- TAVR: Transcatheter aortic valve replacement. The interventional cardiologist and surgeon may use a catheter to replace the damaged aortic valve with an artificial one.
- Conventional surgical aortic valve replacement. The interventional cardiologist and surgeon may recommend conventional (“open”) surgery to replace the valve.
For patients with disease or damage affecting the mitral valve, our team offers conventional (“open”) surgery and minimally invasive transcatheter mitral valve replacement and repair. For mitral valve disease, the team may recommend:
- Balloon mitral valvuloplasty.
- MitraClip Transcatheter Mitral Valve Repair
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Monument Health Heart and Vascular Institute
353 Fairmont Boulevard, Rapid City, SD 57701
What People Are Saying
New to South Dakota and needed a primary care doctor. Easy to link my info within Mychart, and scheduled an appt. Had all my concerns addressed and was treated respectfully and in a very timely manner…..highly recommend Monument Health and their staff!
Excellent job on my knee surgery, excellent bed side manner, and patiently answered all of my questions.