Duke offers a full range of therapies avialable to treat valvular heart disease, including heart catheter-based therapy for blocked heart valves, non-surgical valve repair, and alcohol ablation therapy for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Duke pioneered the catheter-based treatment of valvular heart disease, and continues to advance this field with new techniques for valve repair.

In the near future catheter-based valve replacement will be offered as a research option.

Medications may also benefit patients with valve disease.

Medications may include:

• ACE inhibitors to widen blood vessels and lower blood pressure
• Antiarrhythmics to help maintain a regular heartbeat and pump blood through the body more efficiently
• Anticoagulants to prevent blood clots
• Cardiotonics to help the blood pump through the heart more forcefully

Physicians

Physicians offering this service include:

• Bashore, Thomas M.
• Gehrig, Thomas
• Harrison, J. Kevin
• Rhodes, John F. Jr.
• Wang, Andrew

Locations

This service is available at:

• Duke University Hospital
  2301 Erwin Road, Durham, NC 27710