Heart Valve Services
Life-saving heart valve procedures, such as TAVR, performed by expert interventional cardiologists from Columbia University Irving Medical Center and Garnet Health.
Expert Interventional Cardiologists
Our award-winning Peter Frommer, M.D. Heart Center is proudly bringing some of the best interventional cardiologists to our community. In partnership with leading programs in New York City, Garnet Health provides complex heart valve procedures, so that our patient's hearts can heal better near home and with family.
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Garnet Health’s Heart Valve services provides a direct pathway to care for patients with heart valve conditions offering diagnosis and timely follow-up and treatment of heart valve disease. We provide high quality care from a multidisciplinary team of specialists which include interventional cardiologists, cardiothoracic surgeons, and a clinical coordinator.
We also provide a patient navigator to guide you through your experience, education to help explain your condition and treatment options, and help you and your family make the best decision if intervention is necessary.
Our Heart Valve team is led by Susheel Kumar Kodali, MD, director of the Structural Heart and Valve Center at Columbia University Irving Medical Center/NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, director of the interventional cardiology fellowship program, and an associate professor in medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
Dr. Kodali is Board-certified in interventional cardiology, endovascular medicine, and cardiovascular disease, and specializes in the percutaneous treatment of coronary artery and structural heart disease, and cardiac catheterization.
Dr. Kodali was named New York Metro Area’s Top Doctor 2016-2021 by Castle Connolly's Top Doctors™ and New York Magazine’s Top Doctors in 2012-2017, 2020-2021.
Dr. Kodali attended medical school at The University of California, Los Angeles. He did his residency and a fellowship program in clinical cardiology at the University of California, San Francisco, and a fellowship program in interventional cardiology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
Through our partnership with Columbia University Irving Medical Center, our specialized and advanced care teams provide our local community access to advanced heart valve procedures that don't require patients to travel to New York City. This partnership allows local residents to receive the same expert procedures as those performed in New York City, while staying close to home.
Heart Valve Procedures
Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is a less-invasive procedure that repairs damaged or stiff aortic valves (aortic stenosis). Very small incisions are made to allow a thin tube called a catheter to pass through the patient’s blood vessels until it arrives at the heart. The catheter is then used to guide a replacement valve to the heart, where the new valve takes over for the damaged old valve. Garnet Health’s TAVR program is led by Columbia Irvine Medical Center’s TAVR experts, who bring their internationally-recognized skills to our advanced and state-of-the-art cardiothoracic operating rooms so patients no longer need to travel to get the best care cardiac care.
In this procedure, a small plug called a Watchman device is placed into the LAA to seal it off from the rest of the heart. This keeps blood clots from forming in the LAA, reducing the risk of stroke significantly.
The procedure is performed with general anesthesia and takes about one hour. Patients can return home the next day and to full activities within 2–3 days. The Watchman procedure is an excellent alternative to blood thinners in many patients.Medical trials comparing the Watchman device to ongoing blood-thinner therapy have shown that patients who receive the Watchman have fewer strokes, fewer bleeding complications, and live longer. Since its approval in 2015, there have been over 60,000 Watchman devices implanted in the U.S., with remarkable safety rates reflected in the latest studies.
Concerned about your heart health? Be sure to speak with your cardiologist. If you don't have a cardiologist, please use the "Find a Cardiologist" link below, or call Garnet Health Doctors - Middletown at 845-333-7575, or Garnet Health Doctors - Harris at 845-333-8909 to make an appointment.
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