Valvular & Structural Heart Disease

Innovative Treatments

We are internationally recognized experts in valve and structural heart conditions and perform a wide range of advanced treatment to tailor care to each distinct person and their diagnosis.

This team uses state-of-the-art technology and offers the latest surgical and interventional techniques, many of which are minimally invasive. Our physicians have pioneered novel, minimally invasive transcatheter techniques for a variety of structural heart disorders, and our robotic surgery program performs more procedures than any other in the United States. Our goal is to offer patients the best treatment strategy for their needs that simultaneously minimizes pain and recovery time.

Dedicated Care

Our multidisciplinary diagnosis and treatment strategy allows us to deliver the highest level of patient-centered care. Through constant collaboration and discussion, the interdisciplinary team creates a personalized treatment plan designed to maximize results. We welcome complex cases and high-risk patients, and work together to find novel ways of treating patients seeking their second or third opinion.

Advancing Research

With medicine constantly evolving, our valve and structural heart physician-scientists are engaged in active research to discover new ways of managing these conditions. We strive to continue advancing medicine to ensure better outcomes and higher patient satisfaction.

Unparalleled Surgery Expertise

At UChicago Medicine, we offer advanced surgical solutions to treat heart failure, heart valve disease and many other heart conditions. From reconstructing failing hearts to performing minimally invasive and robotic cardiac surgery, our surgeons are helping people with heart disease return to active, full lives.

At the core of our heart surgery program is a team of internationally known cardiac surgeons who are leaders in the field, often among the first to perform groundbreaking procedures.

Our surgeons perform a wide range of heart surgery operations, from more common procedures such as coronary bypass surgery and mitral valve repair, to complex heart remodeling for severe heart failure. This breadth of expertise means that our surgeons bring advanced skills to every surgical case — using innovative techniques to make surgeries more effective, while reducing the risk for complications.

Congenital Heart Disease

At UChicago Medicine, we understand that adults with congenital heart disease require care that cannot be delivered by adult or pediatric cardiologists alone. In response to this need, we created the Center for Adults with Congenital Heart Disease.

Our center's multidisciplinary staff of adult and pediatric cardiologists, interventional cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, electrophysiologists and other specialists provide personalized care for adults 18 years and older with any type of congenital heart problem. This multidisciplinary approach affords us the ability to treat patients with repaired or unrepaired defects who also may have co-existing heart and medical diseases.

Our heart specialists are internationally recognized for their expertise in treating congenital heart disease. In fact, patients of all ages from around the world travel to the University of Chicago to receive care for congenital heart problems.

Pediatric Heart Care

Comer Children's Hospital cardiologists and cardiac surgeons are experts in the diagnosis and treatment of heart valve conditions. Our patients are our priority; we take time to get to know each family, understand the cause and severity of each child's condition, explain our diagnostic process and answer any questions you may have about heart valve conditions.