Sharp offers minimally invasive valve surgery, MAZE procedures and aortic valve surgery.

Your heart has four valves — mitral, tricuspid, aortic and pulmonary — which ensure that blood flows in only one direction through the heart. Heart valve disease occurs when one or more heart valves do not work correctly, which can damage your heart over time.

Sharp specializes in the surgical treatment of heart valve disease. Our affiliated surgeons have extensive experience in mitral valve, aortic and tricuspid valve repair and replacement.

Why choose Sharp for heart valve surgery?

• A robust team of internationally renowned health care professionals — including cardiac surgeons, cardiologists, nurses and board-certified pulmonologists and intensivists — who care for patients before surgery through rehabilitation and recovery. And through our convenient Find a Doctor tool, we make choosing the right cardiovascular disease specialist, interventional cardiologist and cardiovascular surgeon easy.
• Sharp specializes in advanced cardiac care including heart transplant and mechanical circulatory support. 
• Surgeons perform more than 100 heart valve repair and replacement surgeries each year, with the majority of patients receiving heart valve repair surgery.
• Unparalleled experience with high-risk heart failure patients in San Diego.

Our heart valve medical treatments.

Treatments for heart valve disease include drug therapy, heart valve repair surgery and heart valve replacement surgery. Sharp provides the following surgical options for heart valve surgery:

• Aortic valve surgery
• MAZE procedure, mitral valve repair and mitral valve surgery
• Transcatheter aortic valve replacement therapy