Heart Valve Disease Treatment

When you experience dizziness, shortness of breath, chest pressure, or other worrying heart valve disease symptoms, you want to know why. The cardiologists at AdventHealth Tampa, formerly Florida Hospital Tampa, can help you identify the issue so you can start receiving care. Screenings and tests we use to diagnose heart valve disease include:

• CT Scans
• ECG/EKG (Electrocardiograms)
• MRIs
• X-Rays

If we discover you have heart valve disease, you can count on us for leading cardiovascular care. Answering your questions and supporting you from one end of your treatment to the other, we’ll care for you in body, mind, and spirit.

As you receive your heart valve disease diagnosis and plan your next steps, your cardiologists will be here to guide you. We offer treatment for the following types of heart valve disease:

• Aortic Valve Disease
• Mitral Valve Disease
• Pulmonic Valve Disease
• Tricuspid Valve Disease

Your care is personal. Which is why our heart specialists will create a personalized treatment plan to care for your heart valve disease, helping you find relief through skillful, compassionate treatment. For more information specifically regarding our Mitral Valve program, contact our Mitral Valve Coordinator at 813-55-HEART or Call813-554-3278 and press extension 1

You guard your heart carefully, because you know it’s at the core of your feelings, your relationships, your life. You can trust us to protect your heart just as carefully through our highly advanced cardiac care. We were the first hospital in the Tampa area and one of the first hospitals in the nation to perform the Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) procedure, a minimally invasive treatment option for those unable to receive open heart surgery. With safer, more specialized heart valve disease treatments than other facilities, you can trust our experience and excellence in cardiovascular care. Other treatments we offer for heart valve disease include:

• Management Through Medications
• Valve Repair
• Valve Replacement

If your cardiologist or physician has determined you may be a candidate for a TAVR procedure, you will be referred to the Structural Heart program at AdventHealth Pepin Heart Institute. Your doctor will either contact our program’s coordinator or speak directly with one of the physicians on our TAVR team. Once our coordinator receives the referral, you will be contacted to schedule an appointment and to start testing procedures.

We will gather information about your medical history from your physicians and facilities that have cared for you. With this information, our TAVR team can determine if additional testing is required prior to your initial assessment. We have designed our program to make this step easy and convenient for you and your family. If you have any questions, contact our TAVR Coordinator at 813-55-HEART or Call813-554-3278 and press extension 1.

You may feel frightened or overwhelmed after your receive a heart valve disease diagnosis, and we understand. In our hospital, you can feel confident knowing you’re receiving the best care available — and that your heart is in good hands.