Heart Failure Surgery

You can develop heart failure for many reasons, including heart attacks, heart valve disease and heart arrhythmias (irregular heartbeats). Sometimes, surgery to treat these conditions can help improve symptoms of heart failure. These surgeries include:

• Coronary artery bypass graft, or bypass surgery, to reroute blood around blocked arteries that cause heart disease.
• Heart valve surgery to repair or replace faulty valves that cause issues such as aortic stenosis and mitral valve regurgitation.

These procedures may require open-heart surgeries. However, some heart problems can be treated using minimally invasive, catheter-based procedures, where a small incision is made in your leg or upper thigh and a tube (a catheter) is guided to your heart. Examples include:

• Coronary angioplasty, also called percutaneous coronary intervention, where your surgeon guides a balloon through a catheter to clear a blocked artery that’s causing or contributing to coronary artery disease.
• Mitral percutaneous repair or replacement, where a new mitral valve is placed inside a damaged valve or repaired.
• Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), where a new aortic valve is placed inside a damaged valve.
• Tricuspid percutaneous repair or replacement, where a damaged tricuspid valve is repaired or replaced.