Heart Valve Disease Clinic
Providing the best care for patients with heart valve disease requires the close collaboration of different types of heart specialists. The UCSF Heart Valve Disease Clinic brings together interventional cardiologists and cardiothoracic surgeons to offer expert, comprehensive care.
Early treatment is critical with valve disease. Our surgeons have tremendous success in performing mitral valve repairs in patients with early-stage disease. We are also highly experienced in performing valvuloplasty to repair heart valves with narrowed openings.
We provide patients with advanced valve disease a quantitative assessment of valve function before beginning appropriate treatment. Cardiologists and cardiac surgeons who specialize in valvular heart disease evaluate each patient and make a joint decision on the best treatment approach. Treatments may include non-surgical therapies, catheter-based procedures, or surgery.
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Clinical trials
The EMPOWER Trial - The Carillon® Mitral Contour System® in Treating Heart Failure With at Leas...
Freedom from a composite of major adverse events (defined as Device Embolization, Vessel Erosion, Cardiac Perforation, and occurrence of cardiac surgery or percutaneous coronary intervention) in the Intervention group is greater t...
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Beating Heart Mitral Valve Repair With the HARPOON™ System
Composite safety endpoint, defined as freedom-from all-cause mortality, stroke, acute kidney injury (AKI), major bleeding, new permanent pace-maker implantation, deep sternal wound infection (DSWI) or wound infection requiring sur...
Recruiting
COMPASSION S3 - Evaluation of the SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve in Patients With Pulmonary...
Defined as a non-hierarchical composite of: RVOT reintervention, Moderate or greater total pulmonary regurgitation (PR) via Transthoracic Echocardiography (TTE), Mean RVOT gradient > 40 mmHg via TTE
Recruiting
The AMPLATZER™ Post-infarct Muscular VSD Occluder Humanitarian Device Exemption (H070005) The A...
Technical success occurs when a subject is successfully implanted with a PIVSD device in the ventricular septal defect. An implant attempt occurs when the delivery system is inserted in the subject's vasculature.
Recruiting
Awards & recognition
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Best hospital in Northern California
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One of the nation’s best in cardiology & heart surgery
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What to Bring
- Medication bottles
- Insurance card
- Referring doctor's notes from most recent medical history and physical exam
- CDs of echocardiograms
- Cardiac catherization reports
- Holter monitor reports
- Stress test results
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