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Heart and Vascular Care

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Maintaining a healthy heart and having expert local care is essential for preventing a health crisis and enjoying your day-to-day life. At Adventist Health Glendale, we provide advanced care for all cardiovascular conditions, using the latest minimally invasive treatments to help you recover faster and feel your best. Beyond treatment, we’re here to support your heart health journey — helping you take proactive steps to remain strong at heart.

Comprehensive care

We offer a range of diagnostic tests to assess your heart health as well as procedures to treat various conditions in all aspects of heart care, from emergency care to surgical intervention. Our care includes:

Cardiac catheterization
Cardiac surgery
Electrophysiology
Vascular and neurovascular procedures

Advanced treatments

At our Heart & Vascular Institute, we offer state-of-the-art treatments and a comprehensive structural heart program, allowing our team to deliver the expert care you and your family deserve.

Catheter-based procedures

We offer about 18 catheter-based procedures to treat various heart conditions in all aspects of heart care. Some of the most common conditions we treat include:

Aortic valve stenosis
Mitral valve disease
Hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy
Patent foramen ovale (PFO) and atrial septal defect (ASD)
Left atrial appendage

Structural Heart Program

If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with structural heart disease, our expert providers are here to help. Ask your doctor for a referral to our Structural Heart Program. Our heart surgeons and interventional cardiologists are skilled at providing dozens of minimally invasive, life-changing procedures, from valve replacement and repair to pulmonary arterial interventions and pericardiotomies.

Our team offers the following procedures:

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement
Balloon valvuloplasty
Transcatheter mitral valve repair
Tricuspid regurgitation procedure
Left atrial appendage occlusion procedure
Paravalvular leak repair and closure
Transcatheter pulmonic valve replacement
Atrial septal defect and patent foramen ovale
Ventricular septal defect
Patent ductus arteriosus
Adult transcatheter repair of the coarctation of the aorta
Coronary fistula repair
Pulmonary arterial and venous interventions
Alcohol septal ablation
Endomyocardial biopsy
Trans-septal puncture
Balloon pericardiotomy
Intra-cardiac echocardiography

Our Team

Caring for your heart with all our heart

When it comes to matters of the heart, experience counts. Our highly trained team of cardiologists, interventional cardiologists, and cardiothoracic surgeons are experts at preventing, diagnosing, and treating cardiac and vascular conditions.

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Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR)

For years, treating severe aortic stenosis – a narrowing of the heart’s aortic valve – meant undergoing open-heart surgery, a complex and high-risk procedure. Today, we offer a less invasive option: transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). With this advanced procedure, a catheter is placed in a blood vessel which is then used to deliver a replacement valve to the heart. Patients can expect a faster recovery, less risk of complications, and the ability to safely resume their daily activities.

What is structural heart disease?

Structural heart disease focuses on non-coronary heart conditions affecting the heart's internal structures, including the muscle, valves, walls, and major blood vessels. These conditions can be congenital, present from birth, or acquired, developing over time. Our team provides compassionate care to help you manage these conditions and improve your heart health.

How is structural heart disease treated?

In the past, open-heart surgery was the primary treatment for structural heart diseases, requiring a large chest incision. Today, Adventist Health Glendale offers catheter-based procedures as a minimally invasive alternative, allowing for faster recovery, and less discomfort. Performed in our state-of-the-art cardiac catheterization laboratory, these advanced procedures are the gold standard of care for many structural heart conditions.

What are the benefits of catheter-based procedures?

Catheter-based procedures are minimally invasive, requiring only a small puncture to insert the catheter instead of a large incision from open-heart surgery. This approach typically results in quicker procedures with a lower risk of complications. Patients often experience less pain, reduced trauma, a shorter hospital stay, and a faster recovery.