Valve and structural heart disease care

Our approach to care is multidisciplinary and comprehensive. This means you have a team of heart care specialists continuously connected and working together to ensure you receive the most innovative transcatheter and surgical therapies available. This includes investigational approaches only available at a few centers in the world.

At AHMHI, you have an entire team of experts committed to your well-being – a team that is recognized globally for its world-class care, state-of-the art technology and innovative therapies used to treat diseases affecting the cardiac valves and structural heart lesions.

From diagnosis and treatment to recovery, your team works together seamlessly every step of the way. This level of collaboration is part of our whole-hearted commitment to you and makes us the strongest of heart teams, consistently delivering life-changing outcomes.

Therapies available at AHMHI include:

• Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR)
• Transcatheter mitral edge-to-edge repair (TEER)
• Transcatheter mitral valve repair and replacement
• Valve-in-valve therapy for prosthetic valve degeneration
• Minimally invasive mitral valve surgery (e.g., port access)
• Mini-sternotomy aortic valve surgery
• Paravalvular prosthetic leak repair
• Transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement and repair
• Balloon valvuloplasty (mitral and aortic)
• Alcohol septal ablation
• Ventricular and aortic pseudoaneurysm transcatheter repair
• Transcatheter closure of patent foramen ovale (PFO), atrial septal defect, and ventricular septal defect
• Left atrial appendage closure

You will need a referral from your primary care provider or specialist. Your primary care provider or specialist can: 

• evaluate your symptoms
• provide a physical examination
• order initial lab work and testing
• provide insight into the type of specialized care you may need for your condition
• refer you for specialized valve and structural heart disease care

Fax transmissions for our team may be sent to 612-863-1300.

Image transfers 

We also have the ability to receive transfers of any recent imaging work performed outside of our facility to minimize repetitive services.

Medical evaluation is the first step to better understand your medical condition and needs. Evaluations may include advanced cardiac imaging with echocardiography, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT). Your care team will include physicians, interventional cardiologists and surgeons, who will work with you to develop a care plan that meets your needs and provides the necessary support for recovery.

We have a long history of leading and participating in major clinical trials of valvular and structural heart disease. Patients may be eligible to participate in these trials and access unique and innovative therapies.

Learn more about heart valve disease and current clinical trials at Allina Health Research clinical trials and the Current Valve Disease Studies listing on the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation website.