Aortic valve stenosis

Aortic valve stenosis care at Mayo Clinic

Your Mayo Clinic team

Mayo Clinic cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, imaging providers and others collaborate to determine the most appropriate treatment for your condition. This team approach often means health care providers can evaluate you and develop a treatment plan within two or three days.

• Individualized approach. Health care providers at Mayo Clinic take the time to get to know you and work with you to deliver exactly the care you need.

• Advanced diagnosis and treatment. Mayo Clinic care providers use advanced imaging techniques, including 3D echocardiography and transesophageal echocardiography, to accurately diagnose aortic valve disease and other heart conditions.

  Mayo's cardiac surgeons perform innovative surgical procedures for aortic valve repair or replacement. They may use less invasive procedures, such as TAVR, to replace a narrowed aortic valve.

• Innovative research. Mayo Clinic care providers continue to do innovative research in diagnostic tests, such as echocardiography, CT and other imaging tests, to evaluate heart disease. For example, researchers have studied an imaging test called multidetector computerized tomography (MDCT) to evaluate aortic valve stenosis and measure calcium buildup in the valve. In MDCT, several cross-sectional images are taken of the aortic valve, and the aortic valve is measured.

Expertise and rankings

Mayo care providers in the Valvular Heart Disease Clinic have extensive experience and expertise evaluating and treating people with aortic valve disease and other heart valve diseases. Mayo Clinic health care providers evaluate and treat more than 14,000 people each year with aortic valve stenosis.

Doctors trained in treating children with heart disease (pediatric cardiologists) work with pediatric cardiac surgeons at Mayo Clinic's campus in Minnesota to care for children with aortic valve stenosis and other heart diseases.

Nationally recognized expertise

Mayo Clinic campuses are nationally recognized for expertise in cardiology and cardiovascular surgery:

• The Adult Congenital Heart Disease Association (ACHA) has designated the Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD) Clinic at Mayo Clinic's campus in Rochester, Minnesota, as an ACHA/ACHD Accredited Comprehensive Care Center.

  This accreditation was achieved because the ACHD Clinic meets personnel requirements, offers specific medical services, and uses policies and procedures that help ensure the highest level of care for adults with congenital heart disease. This accreditation also signifies that Mayo Clinic has doctors with special expertise in diagnosing and treating congenital heart disease.

• Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, Mayo Clinic in Phoenix/Scottsdale, Arizona, and Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, are ranked among the Best Hospitals for heart and heart surgery by U.S. News & World Report.
• Mayo Clinic Children's Center in Rochester is ranked the No. 1 hospital in Minnesota, and the five-state region of Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin, according to U.S. News & World Report's 2023-2024 "Best Children's Hospitals" rankings.

With Mayo Clinic's emphasis on collaborative care, specialists at each of the campuses — Minnesota, Arizona and Florida — interact very closely with colleagues at the other campuses and the Mayo Clinic Health System.

Learn more about Mayo Clinic's cardiovascular surgery and cardiovascular medicine departments' expertise and rankings.

Locations, travel and lodging

Mayo Clinic has major campuses in Phoenix and Scottsdale, Arizona; Jacksonville, Florida; and Rochester, Minnesota. The Mayo Clinic Health System has dozens of locations in several states.

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