Structural heart disease care in Northwest Las Vegas
When your heart condition needs advanced intervention, our team offers coordinated structural heart evaluation and treatment.
At MountainView Hospital, our structural heart program brings together interventional cardiology, cardiothoracic surgery, imaging and diagnostic specialists to provide coordinated cardiac care.
How healthy is your heart
Taking a moment to learn about your heart health is a great way to start taking better care of yourself. Our online assessment tool will help you understand your risks and give you information you can take to your doctor.
Taking a moment to learn about your heart health is a great way to start taking better care of yourself. Our online assessment tool will help you understand your risks and give you information you can take to your doctor.
Symptoms of structural heart conditions
Many structural heart conditions can be treated successfully, especially when identified early. Call 911 or seek immediate medical attention if you experience:
- Chest discomfort
- Dizziness or fainting
- Irregular heartbeat
- Shortness of breath
- Unusual fatigue
Our structural heart program
With shared imaging and diagnostics, our teams work together to design personalized treatment plans focused on coordinated care and continuity.
Structural heart disease
Structural heart disease involves problems with the heart’s valves, walls or chambers that affect how blood flows through the heart. Some people are born with these conditions, while others develop them over time.
Common structural heart issues include narrowed or leaking heart valves and small openings in the heart wall. When these problems become more advanced, they may require a procedure or surgery to repair or replace the affected structure.
Structural heart care vs. general cardiology
General cardiology often focuses on managing heart disease with medications and monitoring. Structural heart care comes into play when a physical problem within the heart needs to be corrected, sometimes with minimally invasive catheter-based procedures and sometimes with surgery.
Interventional structural heart services
- Atrial septal defect/patent foramen ovale closure — A minimally invasive, catheter-based procedure that may be used to seal holes in the heart's septum (atrial wall) to prevent blood clots or reduce heart strain
- Balloon valvuloplasty — Widens narrowed valves and is sometimes done therapeutically for symptom relief and sometimes completed immediately prior to transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR)
- Left atrial appendage occlusion — A minimally invasive medical procedure used primarily to reduce the risk of stroke if you have non-valvular atrial fibrillation (AFib), an irregular heartbeat that can cause blood to pool and form clots in the heart
- TAVR — A catheter-based option that may be used to treat symptomatic aortic valve stenosis in some patients
- Transcatheter mitral valve repair (TMVR) or Transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER) — Procedure in which the interventional cardiologist repairs the existing valve rather than fully replacing it, either the mitral or tricuspid valve position
- Transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVr) — Procedure in which the interventional cardiologist implants a new valve in the mitral valve position to replace a dysfunctional valve
Surgical structural heart services
Our cardiothoracic surgeons use leading-edge techniques to treat complex structural heart conditions and improve long-term outcomes.
Advanced valve repair and replacement
If you are a candidate for open or minimally invasive surgical correction, we offer aortic valve repair and replacement, mitral valve repair and replacement, tricuspid valve repair and replacement and minimally invasive valve surgery.
Complex structural heart procedures
Additional procedures we provide include thoracic aortic aneurysm and dissection repair, septal defect repair and complex coronary artery bypass grafting.
Our collaborative approach
Structural heart care is not one-size-fits-all, so we use a coordinated Heart Team model. We bring together interventional cardiologists, cardiothoracic surgeons and specialized cardiac experts to evaluate each case.
Rather than a referral process between offices, our hospital provides a coordinated program built around you. Because doctors who perform these procedures are located on campus, you benefit from collaboration between procedural and surgical specialists. Imaging, diagnostics and physician visits also all occur on hospital campus.
This integrated approach allows our team to review your case together, discuss the safest and most effective treatment options and develop a personalized plan.