Structural Heart Program

The heart’s structures include four chambers (two atria and two ventricles) as well as valves that keep the blood flowing in the right direction. The four main valves in the heart are the mitral valve, tricuspid valve, aortic valve and pulmonary valve. These structures work together to keep blood flowing through the body. When something is wrong with these chambers or valves your heart can’t effectively do its job.

Structural heart disease is fairly common. Mild conditions may require checkups with a cardiologist while advanced conditions may require cardiac testing and care. Our team is here to diagnose your condition and provide you with the best treatment option. We treat the following:

• Afib
• Aortic Stenosis
• Atrial septal defect (ASD)
• Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM)
• Mitral regurgitation
• Mitral stenosis
• Patent foramen ovale (PFO)
• Pulmonary Valve Stenosis
• Stroke

The Structural Heart Program offers minimally invasive transcatheter treatment options for conditions affecting the valves and other vital structures of the heart. After diagnosis, our team will determine which of the following treatments is best for you:

• Alcohol Septal Ablation (HOCM)
• ASD/PFO (Transcatheter closure)
• Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion (Watchman/Amulet) - Baptist is ranked number one in the state and number two in the world for this procedure. The program is also a training site for Amulet.
• MitraClip (Transcatheter mitral valve repair)
• Percutaneous LVAD-assisted PCI (Impella)
• PVL Closure (Paravalvular leak)
• TAVR (Transcatheter aortic valve replacement) - Baptist is the only hospital in Jacksonville doing TAVR with conscious sedation and no groin incision.
• TMVR (Transcatheter mitral valve replacement)

Led by Ruby Satpathy, MD, FACC, FSCAI, our Valve Clinic is located in the offices of Baptist Heart Specialists at Baptist Jacksonville. It provides a single location where patients can be seen by multiple specialists without having to make multiple appointments.

Our team of interventional cardiologists and cardiothoracic surgeons meet to review the details of a patient's case and create the best plan of care for that patient.

To request an appointment, call our Structural Heart Scheduler at 904.202.9500.

The physicians at Baptist Health lead and participate in national and international studies to advance structural heart treatment. These trials provide patients access to the nation’s latest structural heart technologies and techniques. Below are a few of the most recent:

• Alcohol septal ablation
• Catalyst
• Impella Door-to-Unload (DTU)
• PVL Closure/Registry - Baptist is the number one enroller in this trial.