Valve Repair | Cardiology

LP-cv-valve-intro-couple — Facing Valve Disease **With Confidence**

With every heartbeat, your valves keep blood flowing out in the right direction. If you have chest pain, shortness of breath or fatigue, your valve tissue may need to be repaired or replaced. Turn to the AdventHealth medical experts to help you overcome heart valve disease safely and effectively.

At AdventHealth, you can expect faith-based, award-winning heart and vascular care for your whole family. Your team of board-certified doctors, cardiologists and cardiovascular surgeons are here to help you face a heart valve disease diagnosis with confidence.

LP-Download-Guide-CV-Heart-Valve-Disease-West-Thumbnail — Your Guide in Overcoming Valve Disease

When you learn about heart valve disease and how your valves work, you’re empowered to take heart health into your hands. Your free valve disease guidebook explains:
Heart valve function
How to prevent valve disease
Symptoms of valve disease
Types of valve disease

Download Your Guide

Cardiovascular Knowledge Is Power

The more you understand heart and vascular conditions and how they start, the more empowered you are to take steps to safeguard your health. In these short videos, our board-certified cardiologist, Dr. Irving Perez-Guzman, covers what you should know about two conditions.

Learn what to know about coronary artery disease, including the signs and risk factors and how it can have different symptoms for women than men.
Get the facts about bradycardia — the medical term for a slow heart rate — and its causes and treatment options.

Your Treatment Is Our Specialty

You can count on our locations across the Greater Tampa, Ocala and Heartland regions — including AdventHealth Pepin Heart Institute in Tampa — for leading-edge heart valve care. We offer the latest life-saving diagnostic and treatment procedures to keep your valves healthy and your heart happy.

MitraClip^®

An alternative to open-heart surgery, the MitraClip® procedure is a catheter-based therapy that could work for you if you have mitral valve regurgitation.
Transaortic Valve Replacement (TAVR)

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement, (TAVR) is a less-invasive option than open-heart surgery, and TAVR provides a safer alternative if you are not able to undergo traditional surgeries. This procedure allows your valve to be replaced instead of removed.
Open-Heart Surgery

Open-heart is a general term for surgical procedures that involve opening up the chest and stopping the heart to repair or replace tissue, muscles, valves or the aorta.

Award-Winning Expertise

Our facilities have been recognized for their efforts to stay on the leading edge of cardiac treatments, as well as for their high standards of arrhythmia care for every patient.